Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charlie Chaplin

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Charles W. Chesnutt

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Charles Dudley Warner

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Charles de Gaulle

No policy is worth anything outside of reality.

Charles de Lint

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

Charles de Lint

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Charles de Lint

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Charles de Lint

I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.

Charles de Lint

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Alan Ball

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

Robert Galvan

Venezuela is serving as a model of respect for indigenous peoples and their right to culture, land and sovereignty.

Dave Douglas

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

Suresh Kalmadi

The performances will give a glimpse of the rich culture and heritage of India as the next hosts of the Games.

Patrick Arnold

We are at our wit's end and most embarrassed by this extraordinary delay on the part of the Culture Ministry in delivering on a promise to fund the event.

Gil Cates

There are big culture issues in these films, contemporaneous issues, and he's about as issue-oriented as a host can be.