Choppings Quotes & Sayings

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. — John Owen

Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel. — Molly Harper

Kelly has her hair sticking a foot in the air in every direction, sprayed solid like a helmet. — Addison Moore

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right. — Ezra Stiles

In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book.
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.
And no one can help me. Not even you. — Ray Bradbury

Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all. — Lisa Carey

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before. — Philip O Ceallaigh

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? — Helene Hanff

The author finds any freaking, and remarkably objective, way to estimate religion's influence on American society before the Civil War. The population closely aligned with evangelical sympathies was three or four times the size of the voting population in 1860 — Mark A. Noll

I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that. — Michael Cerveris

I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey! — NeNe Leakes

and it seemed to me that we was like seafarers, and the tober was the ocean. We was passing the landlubbers by. We gawped at each other, us from our ships, and them from their shores, but the gap between us was so big we couldn't cross it. It was high tide or low tide, or whatever tide would prevent us from dropping anchor and rowing out to them, to exchange gifts and brides, gods and diseases" Outside Boy pg.55 — Jeanine Cummins

I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets," said Sabetha, "than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy. — Scott Lynch