Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Caleb Colton

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Dickens

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Stross

My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

Alanis Morissette

Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.

Alan Watts

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

Alan Watts

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

Alan Watts

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

William Shakespeare

O shame, where is thy blush?

Doug Greseth

It's just a shame somebody has to lose.

Jerry Jones

It's a shame that he's gone. It's a disappointment.

Josh Beckett

It's a shame that that's how it has to end. Obviously, something was really bugging him because you just don't speak like that out of emotion.

Tom Moody

It would be a shame if he didn't come back, but I think he will.

Augusten Burroughs

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

bell hooks

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Brene Brown

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Douglas Coupland

There is no shame in impulse.

Charlton Heston

Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong.

Sathya Baba

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

Kathleen Blanco

Such falsehoods and misleading statements, made under oath before Congress, are shocking,

Danish Proverb

It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood

Robert Green Ingersoll

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.