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
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
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
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
William 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
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
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
For those of us who believe in the value of every human life, there isnt any more inspiring work under way in the world today.
Bill Gates
For those of us who believe in the value of every human life, there isnt any more inspiring work under way in the world today.
Bill Gates
One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
Emil Cioran
Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.
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 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 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
You ask What is life? That is the same as asking What is a carrot? A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
You ask What is life? That is the same as asking What is a carrot? A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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
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
The dismissal of our anger as a racial minority is worse than any slur or epithet because it undermines our ability to react to it.
Moran Margaret Cho
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
Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.
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
Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Beauty is where you find it.
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
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
Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.
Madonna Louise Ciccone
Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.
Madonna Louise Ciccone
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
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
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Emil Cioran
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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
A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.
Sri Chinmoy
A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.
Sri Chinmoy
A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.
Sri Chinmoy
Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.
Sri Chinmoy
A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely.
Sri Chinmoy
A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely.
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
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
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
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
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
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
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
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
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
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
We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman
All the things that are white are not milk.
Tamil proverb
In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.
Sarah Brightman
God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
Robert Burns
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
John Burroughs
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
John Burroughs
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
1. Never give anything away for nothing. 2. Never give more than you have to (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). 3. Always take back everything if you possibly can.
William Seward Burroughs
1. Never give anything away for nothing. 2. Never give more than you have to (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). 3. Always take back everything if you possibly can.
William Seward Burroughs
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.
William Seward Burroughs
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
Robert Burton
Is not man born with a love of change an Englishman to be discontented an Anglo-Indian to grumble?
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Man worships self: his God is Man; the struggling of the mortal mind To form its model as 'twould be, the perfect of itself to find.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.
George Herbert Walker Bush
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.
George Herbert Walker Bush
I must work on my mind. For now I realise: Everyone of us has a heaven inside.
Kate Bush
I must work on my mind. For now I realise: Everyone of us has a heaven inside.
Kate Bush
I must work on my mind. For now I realise: Everyone of us has a heaven inside.
Kate Bush
No, we never die for long, While we've got that little life To live for, where it's hid inside.
Kate Bush
No, we never die for long, While we've got that little life To live for, where it's hid inside.
Kate Bush
No, we never die for long, While we've got that little life To live for, where it's hid inside.
Kate Bush
You might not, not think so now, But just you wait and see someone will come to help you.
Kate Bush
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
George Walker Bush
Those in authority should take appropriate precautions to protect our citizens. But we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.
George Walker Bush
Those in authority should take appropriate precautions to protect our citizens. But we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.
George Walker Bush
I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
George Walker Bush
Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
George Walker Bush
Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
George Walker Bush
Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
George Walker Bush
There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on.
George Walker Bush
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
George Walker Bush
I made it very plain: We will not have an all-volunteer army. [Crowd boos] Let me restate that. We will not have a draft.
George Walker Bush
A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.
George Walker Bush
Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.
George Walker Bush
Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical...
George Walker Bush
Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical...
George Walker Bush
The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is "the soul's right to breathe."
George Walker Bush
For decades, the circle of liberty and security and development has been expanding in our world. This progress has brought unity to Europe, self-government to Latin America and Asia, and new hope to Africa. Now we have the historic chance to widen the circle even further, to fight radicalism and terror with justice and dignity, to achieve a true peace, founded on human freedom.
George Walker Bush
For decades, the circle of liberty and security and development has been expanding in our world. This progress has brought unity to Europe, self-government to Latin America and Asia, and new hope to Africa. Now we have the historic chance to widen the circle even further, to fight radicalism and terror with justice and dignity, to achieve a true peace, founded on human freedom.
George Walker Bush
For decades, the circle of liberty and security and development has been expanding in our world. This progress has brought unity to Europe, self-government to Latin America and Asia, and new hope to Africa. Now we have the historic chance to widen the circle even further, to fight radicalism and terror with justice and dignity, to achieve a true peace, founded on human freedom.
George Walker Bush
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
Laura Welch Bush
Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS instead of waiting to die from it.
Laura Welch Bush
I have found yet another friend here. And with such a friend we will together form a team, like a soccer team. This will be a fighting team.
Hugo Rafael Chvez Fras
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
Laura Welch Bush
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
Laura Welch Bush
There is no "worst" in what is new. Everything that has existed is bad, or else no one would have improved upon it by revolution and change.
Isidore Isou
There is no "worst" in what is new. Everything that has existed is bad, or else no one would have improved upon it by revolution and change.
Isidore Isou
There is no "worst" in what is new. Everything that has existed is bad, or else no one would have improved upon it by revolution and change.
Isidore Isou
There is no "worst" in what is new. Everything that has existed is bad, or else no one would have improved upon it by revolution and change.
Isidore Isou
My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
Mark Zuckerberg
Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.
Mark Zuckerberg
Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.
Horace Bushnell
Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.
Horace Bushnell
Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.
Horace Bushnell
Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.
Horace Bushnell
Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
Jim Butcher
Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.
Jim Butcher
Tonight you will be visited by three spirits, the ghosts of indictment past, present and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.
Jim Butcher
Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young mens auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.
Jim Butcher
The mind map will change your life.
Tony Buzan
No woman has ever stepped on Little America and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.
Richard Evelyn Byrd
No woman has ever stepped on Little America and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.
Richard Evelyn Byrd
No woman has ever stepped on Little America and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.
Richard Evelyn Byrd
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia E. Butler
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
What you believe in, is the life you decide.
Keshia Chante
Ego & Hype have no place in business.
Keshia Chante
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
If religion is only human, and its form is mans form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
mile Auguste Chartier
If religion is only human, and its form is mans form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
mile Auguste Chartier
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
Honor de Balzac
Culture is also something that can not be stagnant.
Mahendra Chaudhry
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
We play out our days as we play out cards, taking them as they come, not knowing what they will be, hoping for a lucky card and sometimes getting one, often getting just the wrong one.
Samuel Butler
We play out our days as we play out cards, taking them as they come, not knowing what they will be, hoping for a lucky card and sometimes getting one, often getting just the wrong one.
Samuel Butler
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.
George Bancroft
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Samuel Butler
Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal.
Samuel Butler
Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal.
Samuel Butler
There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know.
Samuel Butler
Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognised for some time.
Samuel Butler
Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognised for some time.
Samuel Butler
Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.
Michael Chabon
This character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.
Thomas Chalmers
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Society is not, as is commonly supposed, the development of nature, but rather her dismantling and entire recasting. It is a second building made from the ruins of the first.
Nicolas Chamfort
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
Money is the greatest concern for small characters, but is nothing but the smallest for great characters.
Nicolas Chamfort
Middle-class women who entertain the hope or fancy of being something in the world, lose Nature's happiness and miss Society's. They are the most unfortunate creatures I have known.
Nicolas Chamfort
If you would estimate the extent of a woman's pride in youth, see how much remains even after she has passed the age of pleasing.
Nicolas Chamfort
If you would estimate the extent of a woman's pride in youth, see how much remains even after she has passed the age of pleasing.
Nicolas Chamfort
The things you know best are: first, those you know intuitively; second, those you've learned from experience; third, those you've learned not from but through books and the ideas they've inspired in you; and finally, those you've learned in books and from your teachers.
Nicolas Chamfort
Economists are surgeons who operate beautifully on the dead and torment the living.
Nicolas Chamfort
Love, as it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
Nicolas Chamfort
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
Nicolas Chamfort
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
Samuel Butler
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle
Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.
Thomas Carlyle
Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.
Thomas Carlyle
A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle
All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble ... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.
Thomas Carlyle
All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble ... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.
Thomas Carlyle
Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?
Thomas Carlyle