Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Wagner

Man passes; he knows that he is dust; nothing is more evident than his frailty. If he should for a single moment forget it, what a chorus of voices would recall it to him! And yet, in the drop of existence which he absorbs, he takes in ages through memory and ages through presentiment. In the moments as they pass, he dimly sees eternity, and more than this, he possesses it by anticipation.

Charles Dudley Warner

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Charles de Lint

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.

Charles de Lint

I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head.

Charles de Lint

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.

Charles Caleb Colton

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Charles Caleb Colton

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

Charles Dickens

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

Charles Caleb Colton

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Charles Stross

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

Charles Spurgeon

The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.

Charles Spurgeon

Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

Alan Moore

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Alan Moore

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Al Pacino

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

Al Pacino

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Ann Brashares

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Lillian Hellman

You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.

Mitch Albom

Something is always happening somewhere.

Hank Azaria

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.

Orson Welles

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

Sri Aurobindo

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

Rachel Cohn

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.