Choakumchild Quotes

#1. Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more! He

Charles Dickens

#2. The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

Joyce Cary

#3. We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

Wole Soyinka

#4. The practice of Sufism is the intention to move toward truth by means of love and devotion.

Javad Nurbakhsh

#5. No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

Leo Tolstoy

#6. I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#7. If only one had time to think!

William Golding

#8. In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.

Jeff Atwood

#9. Place. This is how

Karin Slaughter

#10. I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big problem in life has always been, 'What do I want?'

John Patrick Shanley

#11. Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space. In this sense architecture serves our institutions and expresses the values of our culture.

Robert L. Geddes

#12. I never forgive attacks on my work.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#13. The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

Tess Gerritsen