Chalked Up Quotes

#1. Should I really tell her how that made me feel? How I thought for sure Les had something to do with it or that it was divine intervention or a freaking miracle? Because I honestly feel like it was too perfect to be chalked up to coincidence.

Colleen Hoover

#2. All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

Smiley Blanton

#3. As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.

Jimmy Buffett

#4. In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three thousand additional objects, of which probably 80 percent or more will turn out to be other-worldly orbs.

Seth Shostak

#5. Is there life before death? That's chalked up
In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,
Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup,
We hug our little destiny again.

Seamus Heaney

#6. At first he chalked it up to his sadness at her leaving, but it started to develop into a feeling that was almost worse: doubt.

Sarah M. Cradit

#7. Without thought he repeated some words which a boy had once chalked on the blackboard between lessons: 'A lump of coal is better than nothing. Nothing is better than God. Therefore a lump of coal is better than God'. And then he traced his own name with his finger on the cracked and broken floor.

Peter Ackroyd

#8. One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

E. O. Wilson

#9. "Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.

Van Jones

#10. Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

Aleister Crowley

#11. Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days. Now,

Jenny Colgan

#12. Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

John Williams

#13. When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.

Rudyard Kipling

#14. It's good to know you won't be giving the god of archery a swirly.

Rick Riordan

#15. There is no need to travel a great distance to touch the Kingdom of God, because it is not located in space or time.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#16. If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Red Adair

#17. Broken things can be fixed and healed. Nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean.

Marika McCoola

#18. A wise board accumulates rational wisdom, embraces unconventional wisdom and sharpens system wisdom.

Pearl Zhu

#19. You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.

Ai Yazawa

#20. You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. We are a scene chalked out with the sick white brush of age

Charles Bukowski

#22. I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.

Eben Alexander

#23. It's the difference between having a couple of dates, dating for a few months, or having a marriage and living together for eight years or so. It's easy to look back fondly on the ones that were somewhat short.

Brigid Brannagh

#24. Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.

Dave Willis

#25. Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.

Stephen Chbosky