Procheck Quotes & Sayings

I've come to realize that the only way to deal with life's problems is to walk close to the Lord. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. — Emily Bronte

Although the Civil War was an apocalyptic success in the sense that it brought an end to nearly a century of struggle and broken hopes regarding the ultimate extinction of African American slavery, it also combined new freedoms, as in other major revolutions, with shock, breakdown, trauma, and tragedy. Neither desired nor accurately anticipated by leaders in the North and South, the war dramatized the failure of the whole American system of political negotiation and compromise that had never weakened the institution of slavery but had supported democratic government for whites for over eighty years. < ... > Moreover, the long-term outcome of this revolutionary decision would be determined within a context of sectional hate and bitterness, political revenge, and competing presssures for reconciliation, reunion, and forgiveness. — David Brion Davis

I didn't say I was done with you. You think you want to sleep with me? Let me show you what happens to girls who wake up in my room,' Freddie said. He saw the fear in her face, but she obeyed. They always did. — Destiny Booze

The measures of a life is not in its duration but in its donation. — Debasish Mridha

He has a very nice face and style, really," said Mrs. Kenwigs.
"He certainly has," added Miss Petowker. "There's something in his appearance quite
dear, dear, what's the word again?"
"What word?" inquired Mr. Lillyvick.
"Why
dear me, how stupid I am!" replied Miss Petowker, hesitating. "What do you call it when lords break off doorknockers, and beat policemen, and play at coaches with other people's money, and all that sort of thing?"
"Aristocratic?" suggested the collector.
"Ah! Aristocratic," replied Miss Petowker; "something very aristocratic about him, isn't there?"
The gentlemen held their peace, and smiled at each other, as who should say, "Well! there's no accounting for tastes;" but the ladies resolved unanimously that Nicholas had an aristocratic air, and nobody caring to dispute the position, it was established triumphantly. — Charles Dickens

Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? — Saul Bellow

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him. — Lou Holtz

The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process. — Edgar Mitchell

I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that. — Naomie Harris

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball. — Robert Carlyle

In this life, I've found my true treasure
that will never gonna let me go off hand. — Toba Beta

You are nosy," said Howl. "You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all." "But — Diana Wynne Jones