Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody

Charlie Chaplin

Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Charles W. Pickering

In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.

Charles de Lint

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

Charles Caleb Colton

If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.

Charles Sumner

Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

Charles de Gaulle

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Charles de Gaulle

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Cesare Pavese

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Avril Lavigne

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

Stewart Rahr

I can't seem to shake waking up early.

Dr. Miglietta

It can be anything from him waking up to having a seizure, or it could be involuntary.

Alvin Toffler

I work virtually every waking hour.

Desmond Tutu

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Annie Dillard

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

Terry Pratchett

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Douglas Coupland

I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.