Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruno Latour

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

Arthur Scargill

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

Bobby Jindal

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

Abba Eban

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

Charles Spurgeon

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

Bruce Campbell

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

C. S. Lewis

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

Bill Bryson

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Alex Kapranos

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Charles Dudley Warner

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Charles Dickens

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Charles Dickens

Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.

Charles Spurgeon

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

Charles Spurgeon

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.

Charles Spurgeon

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

Charles Spurgeon

There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

Alan Watts

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

Charlie Chaplin

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

Charles de Gaulle

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

Charles de Lint

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

Charles de Lint

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

Charles de Lint

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

Charles Dickens

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

Charles Dickens

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Alan Moore

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.