Ed Chigliak Quotes & Sayings

The law is silent during war.
[Lat., Silent leges inter arma.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I remember that day, how you took a $50 cab from work, how you held me in the doorway until I stopped shaking. We had told people. We had to untell them. You did it so I wouldn't have to speak. Later, you made me a dinner of all the things I hadn't been allowed to eat. Cured meat, unpasteurized cheese. Two bottles of wine, then finally, sleep. — Jenny Offill

If you have lived in cities and have walked in the park on a summer afternoon, you have perhaps seen, blinking in a corner of his iron cage, a huge, grotesque kind of monkey, a creature with ugly, sagging, hairless skin below his eyes and a bright purple underbody. This monkey is a true monster. In the completeness of his ugliness he achieved a kind of perverted beauty. Children stopping before the cage are fascinated, men turn away with an air of disgust, and women linger for a moment, trying perhaps to remember which one of their male acquaintances the thing in some faint way resembles. — Sherwood Anderson

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope. — Donna Lynn Hope

If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away. — Bill Maher

To fill in all the gaps in my knowledge beforehand was out of the question for me. I had to write now, or not at all. And I wanted to write. — Johan Huizinga

If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that. — Annie Lennox

You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Rather than wandering around in problem-solving mode all day, thinking mainly of what you want to fix about yourself or your life, you can pause for a few moments throughout the day to marvel at what's not broken. You — Kristin Neff

With monuments as with men, position means everything. — Honore De Balzac

It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with. — Juliet Mills

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said. — Clare B. Dunkle