Ching Carpio > Ching's Quotes

“About an attractive woman at the bar, my character, Austin Carr, says, "She might be too drunk. I mean, even stockbrokers have some pride.”
― Jack Getze, Big Money

“The usual warmth of his hands wasn’t there. They chilled my skin as they slipped to my waist, and I realized he was scared.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

“When the fighter steps into the ring, she knows deep in her heart when she looks out into the crowd that there are people who wish to see her fall. Win or loose the fighter...will always get back up again.”
― Judy Prescott Marshall, Be Strong Enough

“There really will be seventeen world wars?” asked Wade.
“No, only sixteen that we know of. Everyone got together and agreed to skip number thirteen, because it would be unlucky.”
― Steve Bates, Back To You

“they’re teaching us that the real Catholic belief about Mary is that she got pregnant through her ear—that “Just as Eve listened to Satan and gave birth to sin, so Mary listened to Gabriel and became pregnant with the Son of God.”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

“I caught a hint of Lachlan’s unique scent again and drew him in deeply, imagining that was how hot sex smelled.”
― J.J. Sorel, A Taste of Peace

“You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

“If we're not enough without it, we'll never be enough with it.”
― Janine Myung Ja, Adoption Stories

“It’s time to fight.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Revenge of Seven

“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Power controlled or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is controlled or abridged.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

“Everyone born of God overcometh the world.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“He knew that loneliness was poisoning him, so that he grew viler as well as more unhappy.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Think Different”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“The problem with Christian culture is we think of love as a commodity. We use it like money. [...] If something is doing something for us, offering us something, be it gifts, time, popularity, or what have you, we feel they have value, we feel they are worth something to us. I could see it so clearly, and I could see it in the pages of my life. This was the thing that had smelled so rotten all these years. I used love like money. The church used love like money. With love, we withheld affirmation from the people who did not agree with us, but we lavishly financed the ones who did.”
― Donald Miller

“The front pattern does move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

“The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.”
― John Irving, A Son of the Circus

“It is said that the principal element that distinguishes a profession from a business is that in a profession, one’s primary obligation is to those he serves, not to himself.”
― Vincent Bugliosi, And the Sea Will Tell

“First you get the feeling, then you figure out why.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjest resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impuse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“.. then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another.”
― Cecelia Ahern, A Place Called Here

“- 'My lord, if a man cannot express his honestly held views in the Central Criminal Court, perhaps you can advise me where else he is free to state that which he believes to be the truth?”
― Jeffrey Archer, A Prisoner of Birth

“Ernesto knew that the Church would fight tooth and nail to retain its power over the people.”
― Jana Petken, The Guardian of Secrets