Chulos Cafe Quotes

#1. The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work.

Henry Spencer

#2. Space for the Spirit to breathe.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. Be careful when you choose your battle. In all cases peace is better than proving you are right.

Sameh Elsayed

#4. (In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.)

Ismail Kadare

#5. That fat freak a guarantee one hunner percen nucular bum. Shit. Drop him on somebody, everbody gettin caught in the fallout, gettin their ass blowed up.

John Kennedy Toole

#6. Karma runs backwards. You suffer so that the violation becomes unavoidable. Your money is no good here.

Carl-John X. Veraja

#7. I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

Rachel Hartman

#8. It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.

Barney Frank

#9. Still much better off Sid, things could have been much worse.
The 'Sky' is only the 'lower' limit, to thee is the Universe.

Rajat Mishra

#10. Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts.

Robert A. Johnson

#11. My life is mine to spend," she said. "And I will not spend it here, no matter how nice your city is, or how much safer it might be. We had a deal, Kell. And now you have Tieren to guard your story and heal your brother. I'm of no use to him. Let me be of use to you.

V.E Schwab

#12. In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

Henri Nouwen

#13. I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.

D.H. Lawrence

#14. She'd never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.

Alan Bennett

#15. I don't know what the hell is going on with me and this girl, but every single time I'm around her, it's like I lose my shit.

Melyssa Winchester