Chp148a Quotes & Sayings

You deserve what you tollerate. — Ramon Colon-Lopez

But the truth is that the only reason I could understand what I was feeling in that moment was because I had spent years loving her. — Megan Miranda

A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology. — Medard Boss

It's up to you to make your own destiny and not up to destiny to make you — Amit Abraham

I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me. — Nas

Someone told me at the beginning of that summer that I would come face-to-face with death because of a Romeo and Juliet romance, I would never have believed it. But it wasn't like that summer went at all like I had planned in the first place. The Columbia recruiter sat across from me, her dark bushy eyebrows rising as high as they could go while she stared down at my application. "So, Alex, I see that you don't have any extracurricular activities." I shrugged. I was sitting in one of those uncomfortable orange plastic chairs in the guidance counselor's office, wishing I could just disappear. I was the first student in all of Winnebago High School's history to have a recruiter from an Ivy League school visit. By the way she looked at our tiny school with its ancient, chipped walls and rusted lockers, I could see why nobody had wanted to visit in the past. — Magan Vernon

We have all forgot more than we remember. — Thomas Fuller

I always say that practice gets you to the top most of the time. — David Beckham

Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for. — Bob Hope

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words ... — Yasunari Kawabata

You're such a player.' She said it with a smile but I hated it. I hated the tight edge to her voice and knowing that was exactly how she saw me: fucking anything that moved, and now her, in this conglomeration of limbs and lips and pleasure. — Christina Lauren

I said his name softly to myself. Lucky. Lucian Radcliffe. His name must come from the Latin lucianus, meaning light, and that's what he was, golden and bright.
I didn't care what Jack's name meant. Probably Jackass. — Marta Acosta

Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped. — Michael Leunig