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.

Arundhati Roy

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

John O'Donohue

We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.

Hermann Hesse

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

Khalil Gibran

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Eva Longoria

Everybody needs a chance to find love.

Gerald Jampolsky

Try finding love, rather than finding fault.

Paulo Coelho

Love can only be found through the act of loving.

Lynn Redgrave

I find love from time to time.

Luanne Rice

The Secret Life of Bees proves that a family can be found where you least expect it-maybe not under your own roof, but in that magical place where you find love. The Secret Life of Bees is a gift, filled with hope!

Chord Overstreet

Ive been playing music since I was born.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Derek Bailey

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Adam Duritz

I've been playing music most of my life.

Aleksa Palladino

I started playing music when I was really young.

Jason Aldean

I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.

Dave Grohl

Going out and playing music - that's what I do. I don't do much else.

John McLaughlin

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

Gottfried Leibniz

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.