Chunked Text Quotes & Sayings

Ambition was an itch in Mary's show, a maggot in her guts. — Emma Donoghue

Off to one side his fine white teacup waited for him with a patience Aria envied — Patrick Rothfuss

I don't like bad mouthing towns and just thinking that I live in such a great place. I mean, I would hate to live in a small town and have a public persona say, "That town sucks." I would really not want to hear that. — Carlos Dengler

There isn't a fight that I'm in that I'm not asking the question, 'What could we have done to avoid this?' Or, 'What can we do to avoid this in the future in terms of the kinds of things that we see?' — Michael Mullen

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings. — Susie Orbach

The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving. — Florence Ellinwood Allen

The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it. — Ami McKay

I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7. — Susan Polgar

Food can be a poison or a cure. Why would you choose to ingest toxins when you could be taking the world's best detox medicine. For the purposes of detoxification, let me be clear; always try to eat organic. — Woodson Merrell

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Love and hope can conquer hate — Barack Obama

I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain - especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state. — Albert Einstein