Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

Charlie Chaplin

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Charlie Chaplin

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Charlie Chaplin

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Charlie Chaplin

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

Charles W. Pickering

Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

Charles de Gaulle

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles de Gaulle

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Charles de Lint

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

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.

Barbara Tuchman

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

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.

Sheriff Stankus

Whether it was confusion or an oversight, all I know is everything was looked into and investigated and it was determined the vehicle was not stolen.

Bob Benson

When we get down inside the red zone we have to come away with points, ... There was a little confusion down there. We have some young guys playing on offense ,and the execution is something we need to get better at.