Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Baudelaire

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Charles Baudelaire

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Charles Baudelaire

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

Chaim Potok

As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

Charles Scott Sherrington

The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not a thought. To-day the dictum must be modified to admit that, often, to refrain from an act is no less an act than to commit one, because inhibition is coequally with excitation a nervous activity.

Charles Sanders Peirce

[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn ... Those are the natural scientific men; and they are the only men that have any real success in scientific research.

Charles Manson

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Charles M. Schulz

Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!

Charles M. Schulz

Life is full of choices, but you never get any!

Charles M. Schulz

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

Charles M. Schulz

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M. Schulz

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Charles M. Schulz

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.

Charles Handy

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

Charles Horton Cooley

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Charles Horton Cooley

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

Charles Horton Cooley

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

Charles Horton Cooley

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.

Charles Francis Richter

There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.

Charles Frazier

What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.

Bindi Irwin

There is someone special in my life right now, and I'm really happy with that, life is wonderful at the moment.

Billy Wilder

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Bill Lee

I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac.

Bill McKibben

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

Bikram Choudhury

My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.

Bessie Smith

When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

Bernard Malamud

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Bernard Malamud

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Bernard Malamud

Life is a tragedy full of joy.