Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Trevelyan

If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Charles Trevelyan

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.

Charles Dudley Warner

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Charles de Gaulle

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

Charles de Lint

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.

Charles Dickens

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

Charles Dickens

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

Steve Wingfield

We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.

Martin Gerber

We knew they were a desperate team. This is their last chance to make it. I thought we were confident going into the game. We lost a little step in the first period. Things just didn't go our way.

Rosemary Palmer

We knew. They didn't even get a chance to knock.

Jon Nebel

We knew they'd come out hard in the third. They created a chance early and put it away.

Ronald Steele

We know we've got to win a couple more to have a chance to make the NCAA tournament.

Abbie Letz

We know we messed up there and didn't play well at all. We made a lot of mistakes and didn't focus. This is our chance to fix that.

Maurice Garner

We know we have to step it up now. One loss and the chance for the city championship goes out the window.

Mike McGann

We know we have to play a perfect game to have a chance to win. We've got to prepare and give it all we've got.

Raul Gonzalez

We know we haven't got much chance of the league but what we have depends on us winning in Barcelona. We need to have the conviction that we can do it and in the dressing room the feeling is there.

Tom Bailey

Yes, people's obsession with my Thompson Twins years is very frustrating,

Carly Rae Jepsen

I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

Brad Pitt

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession...

Ken Livingstone

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

Barbara Kingsolver

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

E. M. Forster

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

Agatha Christie

... obsessions are always dangerous.

Alberto Giacometti

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

Jeb Bush

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.