Chnhr Quotes & Sayings

In the end all that was left was the heat and the clouds of rain, and insects and birds and animals and vegetation that neither knew nor cared. Humans are only one of many things, and all these things long to live, and the highest form of living is freedom: a man to be a man, a cloud to be a cloud, bamboo to be bamboo. Decades — Richard Flanagan

Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing — Robert Hubner

Seemingly by design, the American legal system encourages defense counsel to be as mendacious as possible. As Monroe Freedman, a legal ethicist and former dean of Hofstra Law School, has written, "The attorney is obligated to attack, if he can, the reliability or credibility of an opposing witness whom he knows to be truthful." It's an essential component of our adversarial system of justice, based on the theory that justice is best achieved not through a third-party investigation directed by an impartial judge but, instead, through vigorous disputation by the interested parties: trial by verbal combat. The — Jon Krakauer

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. — Peter Shaffer

There were no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite self patience. — Chad Harbach

I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think. — Eli Roth

Happiness is seeing Bear Bluff in your rearview mirror, but you better look damn quick. — James Patterson

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics ... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self. — D.H. Lawrence

You've got to set high standards for yourself. — Marcus Giles

She chose a very pale teal, halfway between blue and green, with a white silk fichu at the neck. — Anne Perry

We are mere bundles of habits. — William James