Choulala Quotes & Sayings

ancient custom of swearing by the testes (hence, 'testify'). — Gavin Francis

About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length. — Elaine Pagels

If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress. — Gautama Buddha

How cold and foreign this city seemed, that even death could pass unnoticed. — Kristen Simmons

I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous researches. Disgusted at my want of success, I went away to spend a few days at the seaside, and thought of entirely different things. One day, as I was walking on the cliff, the idea came to me, again with the same characteristics of conciseness, suddenness, and immediate certainty, that arithmetical transformations of indefinite ternary quadratic forms are identical with those of non-Euclidian geometry. — Henri Poincare

Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse? — Gary R. Ryan

we're bumping into each other all the time... — Athol Fugard

To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdom ...
p 364 — Melanie Benjamin

Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life. — Cornel West

Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive. — J. Lynn

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium. — Rand Beers