Butcher Block Quotes

#1. Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.

Pablo Picasso

#2. We settled in a booth at Bishop's 4th Street Diner, an aging silver zeppelin on the rotary outside the naval base, grungy and stuffed with Betty Boop tchotchkes in the windows. The waitress greeted Abbass familiarly and promptly took her order: a hamburger, rare, and fries.

Marilyn Johnson

#3. Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.

Oswald Chambers

#4. Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.

C.P. Cavafy

#5. Parts of Chicago are wondrous fair, and parts of Chicago look postapocalyptic. This block had seen the apocalypse come, grunted, and said, Meh.

Jim Butcher

#6. Nearly all companies I have known," he would say in 1985, "have a number of businesses they should not be in.

Walter Kiechel III

#7. Despair is suffering without meaning.

Viktor E. Frankl

#8. There is a regrettable human tendency to exaggerate stability, to believe in equilibrium ... It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays same forever.

Matt Ridley

#9. Google is your friend, people. I'm serious. It's not a person, it's a collective group of people who want to help each other, and that's a good thing.

Elle Casey

#10. There. Politics is a bartering game.

J.D. Robb

#11. Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

Jim Butcher

#12. Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

Brandon Sanderson