Chrysalises Quotes & Sayings

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may. — Abraham Lincoln

We need each other / We believe in one another / And I know we're gonna uncover / What's sleeping in our souls — Noel Gallagher

The telepathic communication had become obvious rather quickly, and after the second or third time
one or the other of them turned to him with a comment that had clearly been the end of a conversation
rather than the beginning, Tony had strongly objected.
"Will you guys quit that? It's getting spooky. Not to mention confusing."
"He's probably right," Bishop had said, clearly amused. "Or he's just jealous that he can't do it."
Tony had made a rude response to that, even though all three of them knew it was at least half true. — Kay Hooper

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own. — Tom Hodgkinson

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture. — Pierre Cardin

We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds. — Fitz-James O'Brien

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. — Bill Burr

If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country. — Peter Singer

At some indeterminate point in their life cycles, they cause themselves to be placed in artificial stone or wooden cocoons, or chrysalises. They have an idea that they will someday emerge from these in an altered state, which they symbolize with carvings of themselves with wings. However, we did not observe that any had actually done so. — Margaret Atwood

Penryn? Who are you talking to?" My mother sounds almost frantic now.
"Just my own personal demon, Mom. Don't worry. He's just a little weakling."
Weak or not, we both know he could have killed me if that's what he wanted. I won't give him the satisfaction of knowing I was scared, though.
"Oh." She sounds calm suddenly, as if that explained everything. "Okay. Don't underestimate them. And don't make them promises you can't keep." I can tell by her fading voice as she says this that she's reassured and walking away.
The baffled look the angel shoots at the door makes me chuckle. He glances my way, giving me a you're-weirder-than-your-mom look. — Susan Ee

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. — Ambrose Bierce