Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles W. Chesnutt

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Charles Dickens

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Charles Dickens

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Spurgeon

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon

Trials teach us what we are.

Alan Watts

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

Alan Watts

The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.

Alan Watts

If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or nonhuman, we must first come to terms with the minority wand the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the 'external' world - especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.

P. J. Harvey

The one thing we preach is mental toughness and we showed it tonight.

Orlando Bloom

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

Roberto Torres

Where is your mental GPS taking you today? Is that where you want to go?

A man should be what he seems.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

There's daggers in men's smiles.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

David Schwimmer

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

Edward Gibbon

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

Dean Ornish

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

B. C. Forbes

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

Jane Yolen

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

Alexander Hamilton

But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by himself. The person ultimately appointed must be object of his preference, though perhaps not in the first degree. It is also not very probable that his nomination would often be overruled.