A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.
Sir John James Cowperthwaite
We have a responsibility to CARE. Thank God were at a place that has the tradition of this program.
Thomas Aaron (Tom) Crean
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
Sir Bernard Rowland Crick
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
Sir Bernard Rowland Crick
It\'s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
One isnt necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cant be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
Take a moment to remember those you have lost along the way, and, let them know you thought of them this Christmas Eve day
T.R. Threston
Education is the poor mans haven and the ignorant mans hell.
Vikrant Parsai
Often you must keep the dogs of desire nipping at your heels lest you become the slave of procrastination and the errand boy of complacency
R.K. Francis
The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When one flowers dies, another is born.
Edmund Cooper
Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.
Fernando Jos (Corby) Corbat
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
Pierre Corneille
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
Joseph Conrad
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
Joseph Conrad
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.
Rick Cook
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.
For death is only a loss of radiance , and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.
Edmund Cooper
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad
Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue. For me every virtuous foreigner is a Greek and every evil Greek worse than a Barbarian. If differences ever develop between you never have recourse to arms, but solve them peacefully. If necessary, I should be your arbitrator. You must not consider God like an autocratic despot, but as a common Father of all; so your behavior may resemble the life siblings have in a family. On my part I should consider all equals, white or blacks, and wish you all to be not only subjects of the Commonwealth, but participants and partners. As much as this depends on me, I should try to bring about what I promised. The oath we made over tonights libations hold onto as a Contract of Love.
Alexander III
When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.
Confucius
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius
To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge. To practice with vigor is to be near to magnanimity. To possess the feeling of shame is to be near to energy.
Confucius
There is only one way to learn It's through action.
Paulo Coelho
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
William Sloane Coffin
You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
Paulo Coelho
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
Charles Caleb Colton
Routine has nothing to do with repetition. To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.
Paulo Coelho
I cant tell someone that their dreams are impossible.
Paulo Coelho
What we aim to do is calm the spirit and get in touch with the source from which everything comes, removing any trace of malice or egotism. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, youll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.
Paulo Coelho
Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.
Paulo Coelho
We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
Paulo Coelho
Fame doesn't change anyone, it just finds idiots; if you are a anonymous idiot, only your family know it; but if you are famous, all people will know that you are idiot.
Patricia Conde Galindo
Everything really belongs to God, and man has no right to assume that he can, at will, exploit God's bounty.
Jeffrey Cohen
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
Claude Cohen Tannoudji
The world is the most dangerous place it's ever been now because of what our country has done, and is doing, and we have to take it back.
Ramsey Clark
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
William Clark
Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create Him.
William Clark
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Carl von Clausewitz
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you're knocked down, get right back up. And never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Hate only hatred.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
A people becomes aware of its existence when it becomes aware of its entirety, not only of its component parts and their individual interests.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Paulo Coelho
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjld
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Dag Hammarskjld
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Dag Hammarskjld
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjld
Money money money money money money money money money. Let no one say it has no place in a love story. It has a particular place. It is something on the right shelf.
Daniel Handler
Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out.
William Christopher Handy
Our desire to conserve wildlife for our children and our children's children forces us to bring out into the open conservation's secret question : Does God give a prize for the maximum number of human beings? Put another way, which shall we bequeath to our grandchildren : human life with nature, or human life without nature?
Garrett James Hardin
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Thomas Hardy
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
Henry Clay
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Henry Clay
It is much more important that we unite, harmonize and improve what we have than attempt to acquire more.
Henry Clay
Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers which is why almost no technology ever works.
John Marwood Cleese
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world and never will.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
If you dont read the newspaper, youre uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, youre misinformed.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth.
Roberto Clemente Walker
It (objection to a machine that could think) was the hook used by the rabble rousers, whose monopoly of moral interpretation might be challenged.
Mark Clifton
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton
Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.
William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward ... Let us have no fear of the future.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
Democracy is spreading across the world. Democracy is only possible with easy access to information and good communications. And technology is a way of facilitating communications.
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
Emil Cioran
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The air of ones native country is the most healthy air.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous ... [I]n war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
He gave me no sign. I was never the sort to receive portents, or to delude myself that I had. Silence was always my portion, in return for my prayers.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.
Michel Chossudovsky
Love without fear and trepidation is fire without flame and heat, day without sun, comb without honey, summer without flowers, winter without frost, sky without moon, a book without letters.
Crestens de Troies
The joy of love when it comes late is like the burning of a green log, which gives out all the more heat and keeps its ability to do so all the longer, the slower it is to kindle.
Crestens de Troies
Don't you think the soldiers look like they came straight from high school yearbooks, too young to be over in Iraq, fighting for no reason?
Moran Margaret Cho
Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrtien
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Possession is eleven points in the law.
Colley Cibber
Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.
Madonna Louise Ciccone
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.
Madonna Louise Ciccone
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
Emil Cioran
So long as man is protected by madness, he functions, and flourishes.
Emil Cioran
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Emil Cioran
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Emil Cioran
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
They say: "In the long run truth will triumph;" but it is untrue.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Writers are as jealous as pigeons.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.
Sri Chinmoy
He (Martin Luther King) was very pure in mind and heart. He was a lover: a lover not only of his race but a lover of all mankind. His heart was so broad, so great, so magnanimous, and this gave him a most sincere feeling of absolute oneness with everyone. This is what made him so divinely great.
Sri Chinmoy
Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
Rufus Choate
A book is the only immortality.
Rufus Choate
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
Rufus Choate
Success, which is not always a proof of merit, depends more often on the choice of a subject than on its execution.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
One's ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
Abraham Lincoln
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.
Ted Chiang
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
Julia Child
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. Chesterton
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
To regard ones immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosophers stone.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Dalai Lama
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
C. J. Cherryh
Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.
C. J. Cherryh
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.
Lois McMaster Bujold
This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.
Sir Thomas Browne
Womanliness means only motherhood;All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
Faith is a Christian's right eye, without which he cannot look for Christ; right hand, without which he cannot do for Christ; it is his tongue, without which he cannot speak for Christ; it is his vital spirit, without which he cannot act for Christ.
Thomas Brooks
Gossip and anger are like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.
Unknown
In mixed company, be readier to hear than to speak, and put people upon talking of what is in their own way; for then you will both oblige them, and be most likely to improve by their conversation.
James Burgh
Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.
James Burgh
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.
Edmund Burke
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
Alexandre Dumas
Stop acting so small. You are the Universe in ecstatic motion.
Rumi
A drunkard\'s words are gone by the next dawn.
Tamil proverb
In a nation of naked people, the one who wears a rag is considered a mad man.
Tamil proverb
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
Edmund Burke
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
George Burns
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.
Sarah Brightman
Singapura means lion-city; prehistoric, myopic, Sanskrit-speaking visitors having spotted a mangy tiger or two in the mangroves. Sly Malays sometimes call it Singa pura-pura, which means pretending to be a lion.It is a profoundly provincial town pretending to be a metropolis.
Anthony Burgess
Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.
Anthony Burgess
In a sense [Lawrence] is the patron saint of all writers who have never had an Oxford or Cambridge education who are somewhat despised by those who have.
Anthony Burgess
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense he is always satisfied with himself.
Napolon Bonaparte
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William Seward Burroughs