Chukkala Quotes & Sayings

Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in any formula. Real faith means the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery. — Martin Buber

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. — Roderick Thorp

One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and decency, .. The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth. It is time for the president and the Congress to follow that common sense for the good of the country. — Dick Gephardt

Of course you hate getting angry!" she retorted. "You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like! — Diana Wynne Jones

Every generation must re-win its own freedoms. — Gatewood Galbraith

Suzanne glanced over at her, eyebrow raised. "Is there an anaconda?" she asked, like it had suddenly occurred to her she could be totally wrong.
Tamara should only be so lucky. "No, there's no anaconda, I can promise you that." Not even a garden snake. — Erin McCarthy

That was Leah, before the fade came. Before the sea mist of depression rolled in without much warning and dampened her, softened her so that she had less strength. She had always been sensitive - that was the word he'd heard for her and it was the right word. She saddened at the lobsters that Tom hauled ashore; she bruised, as ripe fruits do ...
Still. There is something in Leah. A flash of metal. A piece of grit in the pearl. — Susan Fletcher

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers. — Bobby Vinton

It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is. — Andrew Rosenthal

You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush. — Daniel H. Wilson

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it. — Jose Saramago

Stop walking with a 'calendar'. It's capable of ruining your fate,
by showing you the date & limiting your courage, by reminding you of your age. — Sujit Lalwani

I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating. — Zach Condon

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common? — Donald Justice