Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Sorkin

People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

Charlotte Bronte

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

Charlotte Bronte

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns

Charlotte Bronte

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte

Look twice before you leap.

Charlotte Bronte

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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

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

The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Charles de Lint

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Chetan Bhagat

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

Cheryl Strayed

Jump high and hard with intention and heart.

Cheryl Strayed

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

Cheryl Cole

Now everyday ain't gonna be no picnic Love ain't no walk in the park All you can do is make the best of it now Can't be afraid of the dark Just know that you're not in this thing alone There's always a place in me that you can call home.

Chely Wright

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

Chely Wright

I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

Cher

If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb and said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.

Charlize Theron

Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.

Charles Lamb

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Charles Lamb

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Chanakya

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Charlaine Harris

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

Charles Baudelaire

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.