Chordas Quotes & Sayings

Once such ideas began to torment him, would they ever quite leave him alone? Would they not rather increase in urgency? Would they not threaten his
very existence? — Franz Kafka

If we didn't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? When our flesh is cut, we bleed. When our heart is broken, we cry. There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you. — Robert Liparulo

Images, whether on paper or in the mind, are not important for themselves. Merely links. Take a parallel from an infinitely higher sphere. Tomorrow morning a priest will give me a little round, thin, cold, tasteless wafer. Is it a disadvantage - is it not in some ways an advantage - that it can't pretend the least resemblance to that with which it unites me? — C.S. Lewis

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped. — Libba Bray

What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad. — Bernard Cornwell

I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country. — Andrew Jackson

Take all the time you need, Miss Steele. I need another moment to marshal my wayward thoughts. — E.L. James

What is there, in the mention of Time To Come, that is so quick to wrench at the heart, to inflict a pain in the senses that is like the run of a sword, I wonder. Perhaps we feel our youngness taken from us without the soothe of sliding years, and the pains of age that come to stand unseen beside us and grow more solid as the minutes pass, are with us solid on the instant, and we sense them, but when we try to assess them, they are back again in their places down in Time To Come, ready to meet us coming. — Richard Llewellyn

Let your feelings flow and the scribbled words stay as a sovereign of the moment. — Somya Kedia

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side. — E.P. Thompson

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance. — Paul Auster

Who's he seeing now then?"
"No idea. They're like funfair goldfish; no point giving them names, they never last that long. — David Nicholls

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage. — Lurlene McDaniel

There is strength in numbers and those numbers come in pounds. — Mike Berry