Chicken Soup Schlock Quotes

#1. But what do I know of the minds of these high Christians who say one thing and do another and then refer to their religion as the justification? I

Jacqueline Park

#2. If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Catherine Aird

#3. I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.

Felicity Kendal

#4. There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.

William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

#5. because when a person has a dream that they've dreamed of their whole life, and they don't get a single chance to accomplish it in the single life that belongs to them, they just sort of wither inside,

Jason Gurley

#6. This was the Big One. This was humiliation, disappointment, and dissolution all wrapped up together, tied with a big red bow of disgrace. The gift that keeps on giving.

Rachel Vincent

#7. [Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

Dorothy Parker

#8. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

Kate Morton

#9. And yet they are in us, those who have long since passed away, as natural disposition, as burden on our destiny, as blood that throbs, and as gesture that rises up out of the depths of time.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

Arthur Boyd

#11. People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

Christopher Vokes

#13. [T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

Dick Armey

#14. With courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

Phyllis Bottome

#15. If they will not understand that we are bringing them a mathematically faultless happiness, our duty will be to force them to be happy. But before we take up arms, we shall try the power of words.

Yevgeny Zamyatin