Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Charles Dickens

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Charles Dickens

I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.

Byron Katie

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Cesare Pavese

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

Jane Austen

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Jane Austen

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

Jane Austen

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Carlos Ghosn

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Twyla Tharp

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

Avril Lavigne

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I`m also a hopeless romantic inside.

William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Halle Berry

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

Nicholas Butler

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

David Atkins

He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's hopeless in the soft.

C. S. Lewis

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

Aldo Leopold

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

David Platt

The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.