Chobie Quotes & Sayings

We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions. — Jerome Bruner

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time. — Charles Simic

Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness. — Emma Goldman

Go home, Butch. I'm not going to do anything stupid." [Vishous to Butch]
"Stupider, you mean."
"Semantics are for shit. — J.R. Ward

I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle. — Michael Specter

One cat just leads to another.
[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).] — Ernest Hemingway,

Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict. — William Golding

I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I'm doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say 'ok, here I am, I'm going to experience the pain,' you don't suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering. — Hubert Selby Jr.

On the wall of this yard there was the wording, painted in high letters: Reliable Autos. We get you there.
"Get you where?" asked Fanwell. Chobie smiled. "Where you want to get. That's where everybody's heading, after all. To where they want to get. — Alexander McCall Smith

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life. — Madeleine M. Kunin

To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws — Paul Watson