Chocante In English Quotes & Sayings

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph. — Susan Sontag

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music. — Michael Gira

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either. — Jackie Collins

However much I might please Henry, he was still her boy - her lovely indulged spoilt golden boy. He might summon me or any other girl to his room, without disturbing the constant steady affection between them which had sprung from her ability, long ago, to love this man who was more foolish, more selfish, and less of a prince than she was a princess. — Philippa Gregory

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed — Bo Jinn

Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them. — Debbie Macomber

To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods. — Ezra Taft Benson

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. — Catullus

Rape is not an extraordinary or evil act for an assailant. It is like forcing someone to eat when she is not hungry. — M.F. Moonzajer

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up. — Tom Clancy

The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced. — Charles Krauthammer

I don't think that Saddam Hussein is deliberately starving his own people. I would think that a man who gets 99 percent of the people to vote for him in an election and the people love him so much, how would they love a man that is starving them? — Louis Farrakhan

You ought to thank me for killing your enemy," Jon said finally, "and curse me for killing your friend. — George R R Martin

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday. — Terry Goodkind

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide. — Emilie Autumn