Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Dickens

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

Charles Stross

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

Bill Walton

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

Juvenal

Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

Aristotle

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

C. S. Lewis

Selfishness has never been admired.

E. W. Howe

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Albert Camus

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Anne Campbell

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

Dalai Lama

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

David O. McKay

The basis of all sin is selfishness.

Brian P. Cleary

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

Luke Evans

I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.

Mahathir Mohamad

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

Maimonides

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

Florynce Kennedy

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

Buzz Bissinger

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

Enya

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Philippe Starck

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,

Peace Pilgrim

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.