Unavoidable Chin Quotes & Sayings

I've read up to Lot #49, which is a valuable postage stamp. — Lemony Snicket

As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes — Orson Scott Card

Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say - here, HERE lies my beloved; ye know not the desolation that broods in bosoms like these. What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes! What despair in those immovable inscriptions! What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave. As well might those tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here. — Herman Melville

We talk about our friends behind their backs. We do. Ask any social scientist who has studies human communication behaviors. Even you edmitted to doing this. Our friends are witnese to our attributes and flaws, our bad habits and good qualities, our contradictions and our contrivances. That they need to occasionally discuss the negative aspects or our lives and personalities in terms less than admiring is to be expected. — Cheryl Strayed

Although most well-informed people have heard of Wallenberg today, many, including Jews, know less about him than about Oscar Schindler, who saved far fewer people and in any case profited from their forced labor. — Alex Kershaw

Operation White Christmas was all about Hollie having the holiday of a lifetime - the holiday she'd dreamed of for years. — Nicki Edwards

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. — Heinz R. Pagels

Housman ran the same analysis for absences from work. The pattern was the same: Firefox and Chrome users were 19 percent less likely to miss work than Internet Explorer and Safari fans. — Adam M. Grant

The ultimate social law, the law of respect. In some ways, a large offense done with respect was more easily overlooked than a small offense done with disrespect. — Sunil Yapa

The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate trooper from the American Civil War. — Winston S. Churchill

... I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people ... who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born "islomanes" ... are direct descendents of the Atlanteans — Lawrence Durrell

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him. — Sugar Ray Leonard

From 'The Suicide', a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking. — Salman Rushdie

I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition. — Jourdan Dunn

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross. — D. A. Carson