Chittocks Quotes & Sayings

She had taken the evidence that there was a time when I was happy and obliterated it, leaving only the memories. — Rebecca Donovan

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature — Julio Cortazar

Heads of warring nations could learn a lot about how to achieve lasting peace by watching dogs and cats who live in the same house. — Blaize Clement

Your ideas of good and bad are just a certain level of prejudice against life. The — Sadhguru

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect. — Colum McCann

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll. — Joe Walsh

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable. — Joseph Campbell

Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra. — Dalai Lama

Why," he was saying, "why should one not tolerate this life, since so little suffices to deprive one of it? So little brings it into being, so little brightens it, so little blights it, so little bears it away. Otherwise, who would tolerate the blows of fate and the humiliations of a successful career, the swindling of grocers, the prices of butchers, the water of milkmen, the irritation of parents, the fury of teachers, the bawling of sergeant-majors, the turpitude of the beasts, the lamentations of the dead-beats, the silence of infinite space, the smell of cauliflower or the passivity of the wooden horses on a merry-g0-round, were it not for his knowledge that the bad and proliferative behaviour of certain minute cells (gesture) or the trajectory of a bullet traced by an involuntary, irresponsible, anonymous individual might unexpectedly come and cause all these cares to evaporate into the blue heavens. — Raymond Queneau

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. — Benjamin Franklin