Chaffers Shaftesbury Quotes

#1. After love, no one is what they were before.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. She wasn't afraid of random war. It was like being struck by lightning, even if the lightning did strike a thousand times a day. No, it wasn't war that terrified Tatiana. It was the resolute chaos of her broken heart.

Paullina Simons

#3. For the rest of our lives, all we can hear are our names chanted over and over, until we are deaf to everything else.

Sherman Alexie

#4. The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance.

Jeremy Collier

#5. Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size. They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet or whatever, it's conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial.

George M. Church

#6. Rare is the person who has it all, and enjoys it all. It is only when the 'All' is in peril do we enjoy any of it.

Garry Fitchett

#7. The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To her who loved the rose.

Francis Thompson

#8. Why?' is the prophetic question.

Jim Wallis

#9. My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.

Terry Wogan

#10. There are no short cuts to the top.

Ed Viesturs

#11. It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.

Owen Wilson

#12. We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

Sarah Palin

#13. The seventeenth of March. In other words, spring. Desmond, people who think themselves smart, I mean those in the height of fashion, women or men - can they afford to wait any longer before buying their spring wardrobes?

Colette

#14. Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves it.

Kenneth Cranham

#15. Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.

George F. Will