Chase > Chase's Quotes

“Doesn't it make you sad to know that life is not about who we are”
― John Rzeznik

“Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.”
― Star Wars Sith Code

“As a child, I never believed in “monsters”. No one ever had to check my closet or under my bed for these mystical creatures. I was unconcerned with these childish beliefs because I knew the real truth: monsters are real, and not the mystical kind. These monsters are everywhere. They sit next to me when I don’t want them to. They stare at me and sneak little glimpses of me when they think they can get away with it. They wonder why I don’t join them, why I am not a part of their ancient circle. They feed on lies, perversion, pain, and on other’s [each other’s] weaknesses. I live amongst them, grew up beside them, watch them; and I bear no obligation to these monsters.”
― My own Kelly Chase Offield

“Did you ever think that maybe your family might have a slight problem with me for the simple fact that I'm pretty much the center of your world and they barely have a place in it?”
― Kristine R. Offield

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce

“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“From the open French windows Sylvie watched Maurice erecting a makeshift tennis net, which mostly seemed to involve whacking everything in sight with a mallet. Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
― Albert Einstein

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“I can’t shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we’re being lied to about.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“(during a conversation about how "unlucky" intelligent, passionate people are who don't know what they want precisely)
By the very nature of what we are, we are interesting. The very core of what we are is the epiphany of unpredictable, unknown, different, and "crazy". That is an actual recipe for interesting.”
― Kelly Chase Offield

“Conflict forces one to better oneself. It forces change, growth, adaption, evolution… or death.”
― Yuthura Ban