Chronicle Quotes

#1. No matter how painful it might be ... I'll do everything in my might! So please, you too, act according to what you believe in!

CLAMP

#2. The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.

Benjamin Cohen

#3. The mutual warmth that is unknown, a single glass panel ... declares the beginning of everything

CLAMP

#4. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

E. M. Forster

#5. If it isn't something precious, it doesn't serve as a price!" "But if it means I'm throwing away the most precious thing I have ... what's the good of it?

CLAMP

#6. The point of life isn't to avoid pain. The point of life is to be alive! To feel things. That means the good and the bad. There'll be pain. But also joy, and friendship and love. And it's worth it, believe me.

John J. Stephens

#7. All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish ... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish ... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.

CLAMP

#8. Look around you, he said. There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who's not honored here today. Whatever form you spoke of you were right.

Cormac McCarthy

#9. When they come to chronicle the decline of this civilization," he said, "they're going to wonder why we were debating flag burning, abortion, and broccoli eating instead of the fundamental issues of how we live and use the environment.

James Howard Kunstler

#10. Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.

CLAMP

#11. Thanks to the choice you made, another future was set in place. And the choice you have yet to make, will decide another ...

CLAMP

#12. With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly
through the chronicle of a powerful family's fortunes
one of the great political dramas of our time.

Ronald Steel

#13. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image ... I'm standing still, and I can't find the image.
- Toru

Haruki Murakami

#14. The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Heinrich Heine

#15. The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.

Jesse Jackson Jr.

#16. You can't give more or take more than the exact worth! If you give more than you need to ... you'll be hurt! In your body in the material world ... in your luck in the world of the stars ... and in your soul in the heavenly world!

CLAMP

#17. Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.

CLAMP

#18. Because we knew you were waiting, we did our best so that we'd return.

CLAMP

#19. ... and once again ... we will head toward that time.

CLAMP

#20. Which medieval chronicle did you escape from? You sound like a courtly knight.

E.L. James

#21. Fai: *punches Kurogane* That was payback, Kuro-sama!
Kurogane: *grins* You're gonna get punched out, you creep!

CLAMP

#22. The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

Erica Jong

#23. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest.

O. Henry

#24. Really, is having your body taken by aliens all that bad?

San Francisco Chronicle

#25. From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

Haruki Murakami

#26. Literature is nothing more than the expansion of storytelling. Storytelling is obviously the impulse to chronicle something you've been through in order to give it its due, to have a catharsis.

Ron Perlman

#27. Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.

Oscar Wilde

#28. The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent.

Nikola Tesla

#29. But then, crying when you need to cry is another way to show strength.

CLAMP

#30. We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

John Donne

#31. I believe in the princess when she says that she'll return to those waiting for her. So i'll wait. It's more painful to wait than to go along on the trip." 'Well, I can't wait.' "Are you that afraid to believe in someone?

CLAMP

#32. Once upon a time ... " "In the beginning was ... " That's the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives' tale blues riff begins with "Woke up this mornin' ...

Steven Tyler

#33. Because I wished for everyone to live, I did everything I could.

CLAMP

#34. The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

George W. S. Trow

#35. It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,
should you choose to go on with my chronicle,
simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.

Anthony Trollope

#36. Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

John Milton

#37. In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

Ava DuVernay

#38. So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man.

Mark Twain

#39. It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

Samuel Beckett

#40. To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

Martin Buber

#41. 'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remake could have come from video games.

Michael De Luca

#42. The instand one gives up, that is when it all ends. Keep wishing. Wish strongly! Wish hard! Do not let it matter what kind of being you are! Do not let it matter what pressures others put on you! Continue to wish for that which your heart truly desires!!

CLAMP

#43. Maybe it's been like that for you till now. But you're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right ... right?

Haruki Murakami

#44. Even knowing all, being forbidden to tell. Even wanting to help, rescue is impossible. I know of no condition more painful than that.

CLAMP

#45. The pursuit of love is like falconry.- chronicle of death foretold

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#46. Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.

Frank Crowninshield

#47. You can't have them all! That's not how things works in this world, you have to choose one thing that you want, and sacrifice others!

Shienny M.S.

#48. The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls had been reared to get married.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#49. The princess is strong. And because she's strong, she's fragile. If somebody doesn't teach her that fact, she'll break.

CLAMP

#50. If I can protect, I want to protect.

CLAMP

#51. The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order - the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.

Min Jin Lee

#52. I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

Haruki Murakami

#53. Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

Patricia Leavy

#54. With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.'
'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently.
'Semantics,' she shrugged.

Patrick Rothfuss

#55. A fair price ... is nothing to be trifled with." "A price, once paid, cannot be returned.

CLAMP

#56. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

William Shakespeare

#57. I do not judge, I only chronicle.

John Singer Sargent

#58. After the way you accepted the mission, I know I can't convince you otherwise. So, instead ... come back alive. We'll be here ... waiting for you to come back.

CLAMP

#59. Strange as it may seem - or perhaps it does not seem so strange - they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself.

Haruki Murakami

#60. It is not 'strength' to try to take everything upon oneself.

CLAMP

#61. A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

Hallie Burnett

#62. If you kill Syaoran-kun, it will all be over! You and I will be over too!

CLAMP

#63. I'm just not cut out to be a King, I'm afraid. Thief are much more my style.

Shienny M.S.

#64. Self-knowledge facilitates growth and plants seeds of wisdom and inner peace.

Chronicle Books

#65. History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold tasks. Women's history is an assertion that women have a history.

Toshiko Kishida

#66. I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

Haruki Murakami

#67. I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray?

Haruki Murakami

#68. All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.

CLAMP

#69. A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

A. C. Benson

#70. There are no 'ifs' in combat. When you win, you win, When you lose, you lose.

CLAMP

#71. Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

Henning Mankell

#72. The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.

H.L. Mencken

#73. There is something you can do. You can smile. Sakura-chan, your smile is like food to a starving man for Syaoran-kun.

CLAMP

#74. You'll stay here with me?" "Yeah" "If I fall asleep like this ... the first thing i'll see when I wake up ... will be you.

CLAMP

#75. I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.

Kenneth Branagh

#76. He was a mild man, and gentle and good, and did no justice. [Said of King Stephen, 1135-1154.]

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

#77. Until we can be together again ... we wait ... and believe!

CLAMP

#78. I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Khaled Hosseini

#79. But there's one thing you must remember. Whether you want it or not, once you have created bonds between you and other people, those bonds will never disappear.

CLAMP

#80. My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

Chris Abani

#81. That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out
you can't follow them all the way to the end.

Haruki Murakami

#82. I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself, I wanted us to be included in the popular mainstream of entertainment fiction.

Christopher Rice

#83. The guy who isn't in the know can't understand ... how hard it is to be in the know and still not say.

CLAMP

#84. The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job

John A. Keel

#85. One of the peculiar children's perspective out of time allows him to take minute interest in every resident of the town and to chronicle everything we did for the entire day he lives over and over.

Ransom Riggs

#86. 'Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respect?' And that's true to what 'Chronicle' is. There's no one at the studio who wants to make a bad movie. They all want to make a good movie just as much as I do.

Max Landis

#87. A man may sooner engrave the chronicle of a whole nation, or all the records of God in the Scripture upon the hardest marble with his bare finger, than write one syllable of the law of God in a spiritual manner upon his heart.

William Symington

#88. It certainly wasn't the chronicle of a king. The yere of our Lord 1537 was a prince born to king Harry th'eight. It was, instead, the story of a poor boy who learns to read and comes to know as much of politics as a prince. This

Jill Lepore

#89. At that moment, I was sure ... he would cry. It seems that Sakura-chan is the most important person in the world to Syaoran-kun. So when she said, "who are you?" I felt certain he would cry. I wonder if he's crying now.

CLAMP

#90. I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real.

Steve Forbert

#91. Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.

Max Landis

#92. My own view on religion is ... It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and ... to chronicle eclipses ... These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.

Bertrand Russell

#93. Kurogane, to Fai: You, shut up!! If you want to die that much, I'll kill you myself! But until that day, you're going to live!

CLAMP

#94. Voluntary Quicksand
I read the Chronicle this morning
as if I were stepping into voluntary
quicksand
and watched the news go over my shoes
with forty-four more days of spring.
Kent State
America
May 7, 1970

Richard Brautigan

#95. A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Howard Nemerov

#96. Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

Mark Doty

#97. Kurogane: For all my life ... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be taken away from me anymore. But, to have strength means to invite disaster to come to you. And strength alone can't really protect you.

CLAMP

#98. What is War and Peace? It is not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less an historical chronicle. War and Peace is what the author wished and was able to express in the form in which it is expressed. Such

Leo Tolstoy

#99. I am not... your Sakura

CLAMP

#100. In the end, each life is no more than the
sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own
lack of purpose.

Paul Auster