Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

Audre Lorde

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

Arthur Rimbaud

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Carlos Fuentes

chaos: it has no plural.

Charlie Kaufman

The end is built into the beginning.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

Robert Hartwig

We're looking at complete chaos in New Orleans, with explosions and uncontrolled fires,

Cameron Diaz

Maggie slept with him because she wanted to hurt Rose, to get back at her, ... Also Rose had just kicked her out and she was hoping by creating this chaos that Rose would have to clean it up and that would extend her stay, but it backfired.

Bob Dylan

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Chogyam Trungpa

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Byron Katie

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Bertolt Brecht

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Benjamin Haydon

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

Gail Shearer

Whenever you have confusion like this in the marketplace, it opens up opportunities for fraud. People will really have to make sure they're dealing with reputable entities.

Charles de Lint

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

Charles Ives

An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity

Charles Francis Richter

Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

Charles Caleb Colton

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Charles Caleb Colton

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.

Charles Caleb Colton

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Charles Stross

Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

Charles Stross

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Charles Spurgeon

Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

Charles Dickens

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

Charles Caleb Colton

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Charles Dickens

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

Charles Dickens

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

Charles Dickens

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

Charles Dickens

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

Charles Dickens

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

Alan Rickman

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

Alan Grayson

Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there!