Chinks Quotes

#1. Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it," he said with deep bitterness. "I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

Samuel Rogers

#4. Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing.

Charles Dickens

#5. From the very first time she'd been able to find the chinks in his armor

Lisa Kleypas

#6. If you look close enough, you can see cracks in everything. And that's okay. Because when you really think about it, it's the cracks and gaps and chinks in things that let the light shine in.

D. Anne Love

#7. You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.

L. Ron Hubbard

#8. We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks.

Sinclair Lewis

#9. We walked round the ruined garden twice or thrice more, and it was all in bloom for me. If the green and yellow growth of weed in the chinks of the old wall had been the most precious flowers that ever blew, it could not have been more cherished in my remembrance.

Charles Dickens

#10. Most people, however clever, however controlled, never hid it completely. There were chinks, clues, habits. At some point, the real person showed through the facade.

J.D. Robb

#11. As one Wharton dean explains, "The students call it Game Face: they feel pressured to look successful all the time. There can't be any chinks in their armor, and opening up would make them vulnerable.

Adam Grant

#12. Adam Antonovich's father was a tubby tyrant with a triple chin and chinks where his eyes should have been. All his life he had amassed money. In old age he had exchanged it for space; his estates grew, grew and swelled.

("Adam")

Andrei Bely

#13. Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that's going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks.

Robin Williams

#14. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.

Edmund Waller

#15. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

William Blake

#16. The longest life is no more than a sliver of light between two boundless ribbons of dark, like the light you see through the chinks of a log cabin at sunrise. And that last ribbon of dark, the one that comes after you are gone, that one goes on until the end of time.

Jack Todd

#17. The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.

L. Ron Hubbard

#19. At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.

Ross Macdonald

#20. It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#21. The trouble is that there are too many Chinks. When you kill a Chink he splits in half and becomes two Chinks.

Charles Bukowski

#22. Cold has a thousand ways of moving in the world: on the sea it gallops like a troop of horses, on the countryside it falls like a swarm of locusts, in the cities like a knife-blade it slashes the streets and penetrates the chinks of unheated houses.

Italo Calvino

#23. If we really believe the gospel we proclaim, we'll be honest about our own beauty and brokenness, and the beautiful broken One will make himself known to our neighbors through the chinks in our armor - and in theirs.

Fil Anderson

#24. Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.

Christa Wolf

#25. Whatever cosmic attraction had drawn [Jess & Addie] to one another in the first place was beginning to fill in with the chinks and mortar of very real, very likeable human traits.

Bailey Bristol

#26. Amnesty International should list all daughters as prisoners of war.

Paula Wall

#27. As a way of life, a middle path is an ongoing task of responsiveness and risk, grounded on a groundless ground. Its twists and turns are as turbulent and unpredictable as life itself.

Stephen Batchelor

#28. Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

C. Everett Koop

#29. I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet.

Craig Venter

#30. Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.

Walter Smith

#31. I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

Anne Lamott

#32. The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

Ursula Goodenough

#33. People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Ken Blanchard

#34. What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable.

Ted Martinez

#35. We all flow from one fountain.

John Muir

#36. In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me.

Victoria Aveyard

#37. Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood

Umar

#38. God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.

Catherynne M Valente

#39. I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.

Angela Ruggiero

#40. Let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#41. I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

Margaret Atwood