Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

Charles Dickens

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Charles Dickens

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

Charles Simmons

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Charles Stanley

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Demetri Martin

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Michael Hagan

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

Abbie Hoffman

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Andrei Codrescu

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

Simone Signoret

Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait)

Georges Bernanos

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Jean Baudrillard

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

Robert H. Schuller

When youve exhausted all possibilities, remember thisyou havent.

Angela Ruggiero

We're mentally, physically, and emotionally exhausted right now. The stress -- we had players waking up and throwing up.

Alexander Milinkevich

Lukashenko has exhausted the possibility of strengthening his power.

Charles Bukowski

Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad

Alex Campbell

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

Source Unknown

Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer.

James Corden

Nobody tells you when success comes around; in its transient way, you're just working and exhausted all the time. Sometimes I think I'm just sleeping in the back of cars, d'you know what I mean?

Allan Houston

I exhausted everything, ... If it was supposed to happen it would have happened. It just was not supposed to and I'm comfortable with that.

Francie Renfro

If they swim slow, we are where we need to be. Right now they should be exhausted and sleeping more than anything else.