The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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
Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
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 inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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.
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
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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
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
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
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.'
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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
The United States is...a warning rather than an example to the world.
Lydia Maria Child
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
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
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
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
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
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
Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov
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
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
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Emil Cioran
The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it.
Emil Cioran
Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.
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
A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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
Death is not the end, death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide
Sri Chinmoy
A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely.
Sri Chinmoy
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
When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God.
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
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
The scoundrel has his good qualities, and the good man his weaknesses.
Pierre Ambroise Franois Choderlos de Laclos
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
Abraham Lincoln
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
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
You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.
James Burgh
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
Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
Charles Buxton
People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
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
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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
Its even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Napoleon Hill
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
C. J. Cherryh
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In a deserted village the jackass is king.
Indian Proverb
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
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
Womanliness means only motherhood;All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers
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
Be sure of the fact before you lose time in searching for a cause.
James Burgh
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.
Edmund Burke
Stop acting so small. You are the Universe in ecstatic motion.
Rumi
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
Make hay while the sun shines.
Tamil proverb
A drunkard\'s words are gone by the next dawn.
Tamil proverb
The beauty of the soul is shown in the face
Tamil proverb
All the things that are white are not milk.
Tamil proverb
In a nation of naked people, the one who wears a rag is considered a mad man.
Tamil proverb
Even if the water becomes hot water, it will quench the fire.
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
Some hae meat and cann eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
Robert Burns
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
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
If you reject family - which a mother holds together - as well as the ties of Church and State, is there anything left for you?
Anthony Burgess
If the world is to be improved it must be by the exercise of individual charity.
Anthony Burgess
Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.
Anthony Burgess
Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.
Anthony Burgess
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
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
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
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
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
They praised the Mighty Forgiver, They washed their sins in the river, Cold water, well it made them wanna shiver. And that's how rhythm was born.
Nat Burton
I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.
Robert Burton
Birds of a feather will gather together.
Robert Burton
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton
For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.
Robert Burton
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
Robert Burton
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
Robert Burton
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Hardly we find the path of love, to sink the self, forget the "I," When sad suspicion grips the heart, when Man, the Man begins to die:
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the dance less full of fun?
Sir Richard Francis Burton
There is no God, no man-made God; a bigger, stronger, crueller man; Black phantom of our baby-fears, ere Thought, the life of Life, began.
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
What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain, When realms arise and falls a roof; a world is won, a man is slain?
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
Artists shouldn't be made famous. You know... they're just ... as important as... um doctors, and priests ... or maybe not as important sometimes, and yet they have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance you know, football stars and theatre stars It is man-made so the press can feed off it.
Kate Bush
They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
Kate Bush
There ought to be limits to freedom.
George Walker Bush
If the terriers and barriffs (sic) are torn down, this economy will grow.
George Walker Bush
If you're a single mother with two childrenwhich is the toughest job in America, as far as I'm concernedyou're working hard to put food on your family.
George Walker Bush
If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us.
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
We are working hard to convince both the Indians and the Pakis there's a way to deal with their problems without going to war.
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
See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
George Walker Bush
We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own.
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 don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.
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
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
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
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
The security of our world is found in the advancing rights of mankind.
George Walker Bush
Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.
Hugo Rafael Chvez Fras
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
Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire.
Hugo Rafael Chvez Fras
Ah is the shortest of human cries, Oh the longest. Man is born in an Ah and dies in an Oh, for birth is immediate and death is like an airplane taking off.
Malcolm de Chazal
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
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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
On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.
Vannevar 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
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Mark Zuckerberg
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
The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?
Mark Zuckerberg
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
Mark Zuckerberg
More than 175 million people use Facebook. If it were a country, it would be the sixth most populated country in the world.
Mark Zuckerberg
By giving people the power to share, were making the world more transparent.
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
Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.
Horace Bushnell
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
My outlook is that life is like a self-service restaurant and you have to help yourself. Sometimes when you see what the other fella has got, you want some of it too.
Max Bygraves
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
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
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
William Ellery Channing
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
Pride is the master sin of the devil.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table... I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
Erwin Chargaff
The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Stuart Chase
Memory is often the attribute of stupidity; it generally belongs to heavy spirits whom it makes even heavier by the baggage it loads them down with.
Franois Ren, vicomte de Chateaubriand
We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess their very lives.
Csar Estrada Chvez
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
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.
George Bancroft
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.
Samuel Butler
Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains.
Samuel Butler
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Samuel Butler
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Samuel Butler
A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted.
Samuel Butler
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Richard Bach
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
They [my thoughts] are like persons met upon a journey; I think them very agreeable at first but soon find, as a rule, that I am tired of them.
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
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
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
Thomas Chalmers
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
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
Nicolas Chamfort
Money is the greatest concern for small characters, but is nothing but the smallest for great characters.
Nicolas Chamfort
Leave the world a little better than you found it.
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell
After a certain age, any new friends we make in our attempt to replace the ones we've lost are like glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs.
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
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
In cities the old are more corrupt than the young.
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
The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.
Nicolas Chamfort
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicolas Chamfort
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel
Time is the only true purgatory.
Samuel Butler
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Samuel Butler
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Samuel Butler
The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler
The world will, in the end, follow only those who have despised as well as served it.
Samuel Butler
The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
Thomas Carlyle
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.
Thomas Carlyle
A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.
Thomas Carlyle
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
Thomas Carlyle
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
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
You cant publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.
Julian Paul Assange
Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.
Thomas Carlyle
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
Thomas Carlyle
Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?
Thomas Carlyle
Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
Orson Scott Card
The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift. A glorious gift.
Orson Scott Card
Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
Orson Scott Card
He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.
Orson Scott Card
The difference between the revolutionary and the terrorist lies in the reason for which each fights. For whoever stands by a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorist, otherwise the American people in their struggle for liberation from the British colonialists would have been terrorists; the European resistance against the Nazis would be terrorism, the struggle of the Asian, African and Latin American peoples would also be terrorism, and many of you who are in this Assembly hall were considered terrorists.
Yasser Arafat
Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.
Orson Scott Card
Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
Orson Scott Card
Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
Orson Scott Card
A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
Orson Scott Card
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
Orson Scott Card
Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
Orson Scott Card
That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
Orson Scott Card
For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?
Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
A revolution is not a trail of roses. A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing desire.
Willa Sibert Cather
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Marcus Porcius Cato
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Marcus Porcius Cato
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Marcus Porcius Cato
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Marcus Porcius Cato
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
Nick Cave
Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well.
Edgar Cayce
The natives, by and large, had to be driven to work with clubs, they preserved that much dignity, whereas the whites, perfected by public education, worked of their own free will.
Louis Ferdinand Cline
That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.
John Carroll
Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts from above.
John Carroll
Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.
John Carroll
Magic is the science and the art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.
Peter J. Carroll
Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.
Peter J. Carroll
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
Rachel Louise Carson
A book is simply the container of an idealike a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Angela Carter
I'm convinced that whatever state you're in during your pregnancy has a huge influence on the baby's personality - so I hope we haven't produced a little serial killer!
Helena Bonham Carter
Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.
James Earl Carter, Jr.