Inspirational Chuva Quotes & Sayings

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley — John Maeda

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always. — Meredith Hall

Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves something coming back. People who are possessed are not possessed by something that just comes but instead by something that comes back. Sometimes life comes back. If in me everything crumbled before that power, it is not because that power was itself necessarily an overwhelming one: it in fact had only to come, since it had already become too full-flowing a force to be controlled or contained - when it appeared it overran everything. And then, like after a flood, there floated a wardrobe, a person, a loose window, three suitcases. And that seemed like Hell to me, that destruction of layers and layers of human archaeology. — Clarice Lispector

There were many forms of betrayal. Betrayal of friends. Comrades. Even life. — Hollow Ryan

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it. — Mark Twain

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns. — John Bell Hood

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency. — Terence McKenna

I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport. — Ian Millar

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible. — Dava Sobel

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out. — Sylvia Plath

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. — Patrick Dennis

Islam began as a tribal religion, whereas Christianity began more as an individual or family religion. Christianity struck out from Palestine, converting one person or one family at a time. After the initial successes and conquests by Mohammed and his tribe, conversions were as much military as spiritual. Mohammed was both a political and military genius and used his success and charisma to convince the superstitious tribes around him that he had Allah on his side. As such, the sword was the instrument of persuasion. — Darrel Ray