Shaffar Chavez Quotes & Sayings

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation. — Susan Orlean

Why?" The question left Luce's lips as a growl. "Why is it different now?" "Because of you," Abaddon said. "Losing someone special in your life has a way of changing you. If God's favorite son could fall so far, so hard, then no one was immune. I guess He realized we weren't as infallible as He made us out to be, and if He didn't extend the same courtesy, the same forgiveness, to us, He would lose a lot more than He could bear." The — J.M. Darhower

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue. — Mahatma Gandhi

those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, — Plato

His awareness of her swung as she moved around the room like the needle on a compass. — Cassandra Clare

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand. — Rene Descartes

Mother Nature is not sweet. — John Shelby Spong

Space for the Spirit to breathe. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous. — Paulo Coelho

Don't smile. Don't sweat. Don't do nothing. Don't even breathe. It was like watching a salivating bear you knew would either lumber past and go on its way ... Or rip your arm off and beat you with it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and also demonizing them ... The drug war is basically for this - It has nothing to do with drugs, but it has plenty to do with criminalizing an unwanted population and scaring everybody else. — Noam Chomsky

I see marketing not only as a vital skill for small business success, but more importantly, as a vehicle to create art and connect deeply with and serve others to make the world a better place. — Marie Forleo

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning. — Amadou Hampate Ba

All is well
or could be, if we worked to make it so. We were the fingers of the world, putting itself to rights. — Rachel Hartman

I decided that the only way to keep feminine intuition from sneaking through an occasional lucky stab was to stay away from women altogether, which wasn't practical. — Rex Stout