Checkpost Quotes

#1. When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

Mother Teresa

#2. The suffering and happiness in our world, both individual and collective, depend on our consciousness.

Jack Kornfield

#3. Her smile is like summer moonlight-beautiful and magical, with a fire that could melt the night.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Audre Lorde

#5. Man, who knows everything, but fails to see anything by choosing to have nothing because he is too busy knowing it all to realize how much he's been given

Alejandro C. Estrada

#6. I closed my eyes.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm tired. My knee is hurting again and I'm trying to teleport myself upstairs."
"Um, Kate, you can't do that."
"I know. But I'm trying very hard. Let me know if I start fading?

Ilona Andrews

#7. I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

William H. Macy

#8. Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing ... [and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.

Marilyn Waring

#9. Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced.

John Hurt

#10. I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the entire picture in your head throughout a two to three month film shoot. Whereas TV, especially half hour, is like doing a play a week or live theater.

Shawnee Smith