Claudiana Quotes & Sayings

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it. — Andy Rooney

I am too big and too small and too much and not enough and too frightened to change and too sad to stay the same. — Nancy Tucker

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness. — Vishwas Chavan

There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain? — Joseph Heller

It's a long time since God has done anything for the people. — Joseph Conrad

So much talking makes it hard to listen. — Karen Rivers

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings. — Adam Gopnik

Take away the people's bread and you get discontent; take away their money and you get anger, but take away their heroes and you get revolution. — Alex Jackson

That the Bomb altered our subsequent history down to its deepest constitutional roots. It redefined the presidency, as in all respects America's "Commander in Chief" (a term that took on a new and unconstitutional meaning in this period). It fostered an anxiety of continuing crisis, so that society was pervasively militarized. It redefined the government as a National Security State, with an apparatus of secrecy and executive control. It redefined Congress, as an executor of the executive. And it redefined the Supreme Court, as a follower of the follower of the executive. Only one part of the government had the supreme power, the Bomb, and all else must defer to it, for the good of the nation, for the good of the world, for the custody of the future, in a world of perpetual emergency superseding ordinary constitutional restrictions. — Garry Wills

Great sorrows cannot speak. — John Donne

I sometimes wonder why I pushed myself so relentlessly in weight lifting. My motive, I think, was not an uncommon one; I was not the ninety-eight-pound weakling of bodybuilding advertisements, but I was timid, diffident, insecure, submissive. I became strong - very strong - with all my weight lifting but found that this did nothing for my character, which remained exactly the same. — Oliver Sacks

The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it." — Tony Hillerman

It was one thing to die. It was another to lose one's soul. To come to a complete end. To exist no longer. — Darynda Jones