Cholakian Obituary Quotes & Sayings

We may love our chains and our stripes too. — Iris Murdoch

No pain means the end of feeling; each of our joys is a bargain with the devil. — Charles Bukowski

Women's glances express what they dare not speak. — Alphonse Karr

If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself. — Charles Spurgeon

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez. — James Woods

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed. — Sarah Orne Jewett

I'm not looking forward to a specific person per se; I'm just excited to meet everyone. I respect greatness and I'm just going to soak in anyone I meet. — Arian Foster

Imagine that you're an intelligent extraterrestrial, concerned only with verifiable truths. You discover a species that has divided itself into thousands - no, by now millions - of tribal groups holding an incredible variety of beliefs about the origin of the universe and the way to behave in it. Although many of them have ideas in common, even when there's 99% overlap, the remaining one percent's enough to set them killing and torturing each other, over trivial points of doctrine, utterly meaningless to outsiders. How to account for such irrational behavior? ( ... ) religion was the by-product of fear - a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe. For much of human prehistory, it may have been a necessary evil - but why was it so much more evil than necessary - and why did it survive when it was no longer necessary? — Arthur C. Clarke

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. — Nathaniel Branden