Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

C. S. Lewis

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

Mary Hayes

National studies are showing that early decay is on the increase, and that's shocking, actually. It's really a silent epidemic.

Allen Ginsberg

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Antoine Rivarol

Mutability is written upon all things.

Nicolas Sobczak

It could become an issue for the French economy if we're losing talent. That would be another sign of decay in how French society is preparing for the future.

Pankaj Mishra

Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

Edward Burtynsky

I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.

Dan Speckhart

This is a big challenge. There's been more than 30 years of decay and neglect that has run down the infrastructure tremendously.

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.

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?

Dean Koontz

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

Carlos Fuentes

chaos: it has no plural.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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

Alexander Pope

Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all.

Lucinda Franks

She (Virginia Kelley) describes the chaos ... She describes an incident in which Bill's grandmother and she literally were pulling him apart,

Yuval Diskin

When you dismantle a system in which there is a despot who controls his people by force, you have chaos. I'm not sure we won't miss Saddam.