Choky Quotes & Sayings

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity. — Graham Greene

I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. — Bill Gates

When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his — Alexander Alekhine

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling. — Robert Payne

share in this bounty. We were giddy with excitement — Eva Libitzky

I will always want to earn what I get, however much it hurts; that I want it because it hurts, because pain gives life a pain, and without it life isn't even death, just . . . nothingness. — Gemma Files

Too often, the notion of progress is used as a code word for perfection, the chain of being in a different guise. The term should be employed with caution. Some see an arrow of time in biology, as in physics, but in the opposite direction- a relentless tendency to improve, just as a universe has a built-in trend towards chaos and disorder. That is too optimistic. Some lineages get more complicated, some simpler, and much of life has to struggle to stay in the same place. If everyone is evolving, nobody can afford to stop, and there may be constant change with no overall advance at all. — Steve Jones

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something. — Edward Ruscha

If you love me more today than you loved me yesterday, then I can't wait for tomorrow, she says. — Colleen Hoover

Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake! — Jonathan Safran Foer

You wonder at power yoked to service. You wonder because you have come into power young and are learning that power comes through the acceptance of a bond. But if to have power is to be bound, then what is power? — Max Gladstone

If you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part. — Morris Lapidus

If you even try to die, I'll kill you myself, Tucker had said in a choky voice — Josh Lanyon

Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life. — Frederick Lenz

Sincere prayer is answered by unfailing grace. — Shri Radhe Maa

Now air can get through. — Frank Zappa