FastSaying

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.


Charles Fort

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

For a professional magician, a stack of playing cards is as good as a stack of money.
AMIT KALANTRI There is a big difference between the stage magician and the wizard. The magician creates illusions ...
R.A.DELMONICO A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing card...
AMIT KALANTRI You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING There's no magician who can just peel the fish off the grill that easy. You've got to get your ducks...
MARK FRANZ Show me a person who can stop the ugly rhythm called death from resonating in the world in a day & I...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Listen to me. When a physicist starts talking about souls, we are officially off the map.
CLAUDIA GRAY The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid...
EDWARD ALBEE ... what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a...
EDWARD ALBEE Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mong...
KATHERINE DUNN Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
JACK LONDON Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.
AMIT KALANTRI Beyond a deck of cards the following philosophy is true: life is about playing a game the best you c...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perce...
ERALDO BANOVAC Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i...
ROBERT WINSTON we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a g...
KAILASH KHER Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything ha...
AL-MAYASSA BINT HAMAD BIN KHALIFA AL-THANI When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more f...
ECKHART TOLLE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY My daughter graduated from college in 1985. She had a very close friend who is still paying off cred...
FRAN KATZANEK Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ...
KELLY MCGILLIS Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessaril...
AHMET ERTEGUN Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS It makes the other team more aware of what we have offensively. That, in turn, takes a little bit of...
NICK GARCIA We can ALWAYS make a difference to someone, no matter what role we play.
LINDSEY STIRLING There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi...
AULIQ ICE Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
BIBLE Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
HEYWOOD BROWN Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI in these shitty plastic days ...
GILLIAN FLYNN He's like a magician out there in drills we do. It's amazing some of the things he can do with the g...
JOSH BARFIELD We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS... There is not a person in the world who is given the advantage of travel who does not return changed.
LAURA MONCUR Prince Charles is the best-dressed man in the world.
DOMINIC WEST Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when ask...
ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA Fort Collins is a good team, and playing a team like this will make us a very, very good team.
DAVE AUDAY A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL People often ask: If there’s a God, how can He allow so much suffering in the world? Realize all w...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS I don't think it takes a magician to see that that is just a total off-the-mark nonsensical approach...
ROBERT BRYAN The things we perceive in the world are there to aid us in our personal growth.
DETECTIVE DAVID LOVE Success in life comes not from having the right cards, but from playing bad ones properly
JOSHUA DOOL We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good...
JIM HARRISON Status quos are made to be broken.
RAY A. DAVIS Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and ...
JENNY UGLOW I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must spea...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfact...
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There i...
E. HALDEMAN-JULIUS Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER There is no reality only realization of how we perceive the world within our minds.
ANDONI GARCIA You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

More Charles Fort

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be ind...
CHARLES FORT It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing fina...
CHARLES FORT A good many brats are brought up, in the straight and narrow, somewhat deviously.
CHARLES FORT In 1859, the thing to do was to accept Darwinism; now many biologists are revolting and trying to co...
CHARLES FORT Phenomena of a man alone on a desert island can be explained in terms of "mass psychology" - inasmuc...
CHARLES FORT If "mass psychology" applies definitely to one occurrence, it must, even though almost imperceptibly...
CHARLES FORT The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an o...
CHARLES FORT All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustme...
CHARLES FORT The aggregate appearance is of dignity and dissoluteness. The aggregate voice is a defiant prayer. B...
CHARLES FORT A procession of the damned: By the damned I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data th...
CHARLES FORT God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of ...
GARRETT FORT Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scienti...
GARRETT FORT The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
GARRETT FORT It just didn't seem appropriate at this time.
ANNIE FORT It's not like you can mail an application and get a call the next week.
ANNIE FORT We have not even been served with the complaint in this matter, and so have no comment.
ANNIE FORT We did the same thing with the pope movie. We don't really announce development. (CBS) may have gott...
ANNIE FORT To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death...
GARRETT FORT There's always been a lot of mix and matching going on in the retail industry. With all the consolid...
ROBERT FORT Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
JOSEPH FORT NEWTON People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
JOSEPH FORT NEWTON We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens i...
JOSEPH FORT NEWTON A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the accou...
JOSEPH FORT NEWTON Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and l...
JOSEPH FORT NEWTON Belief is a truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.
JOSEPH FORT NEWTON Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'St...
CHARLES DANCE No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai...
CHARLES SAATCHI Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
CHARLES DICKENS In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
CHARLES EAMES Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
CHARLES EAMES To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
CHARLES EAMES It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do...
CHARLES EAMES The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten y...
CHARLES EAMES Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
CHARLES EAMES Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
CHARLES EAMES Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that wa...
CHARLES EAMES Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
CHARLES SIMIC Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES SPURGEON Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that&...
CHARLES MINGUS The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have bee...
CHARLES BABBAGE Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, re...
CHARLES BABBAGE The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producin...
CHARLES BABBAGE Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
CHARLES BABBAGE The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or...
CHARLES BABBAGE Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscan...
CHARLES BABBAGE In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to ta...
CHARLES BABBAGE Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
CHARLES BABBAGE That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of...
CHARLES BABBAGE The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it ne...
CHARLES BABBAGE The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual forc...
CHARLES BABBAGE There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with whic...
CHARLES BABBAGE In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
CHARLES BABBAGE The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almo...
CHARLES BABBAGE The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
CHARLES BABBAGE Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the...
CHARLES BABBAGE At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes...
CHARLES BABBAGE A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine i...
CHARLES BABBAGE If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, yo...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
CHARLES LINDBERGH I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h...
CHARLES STANLEY A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
CHARLES STANLEY A man can preach no better than he prays.
CHARLES STANLEY An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the...
CHARLES STANLEY The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, ...
CHARLES STANLEY Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
CHARLES STANLEY In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might ...
CHARLES STANLEY Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr...
CHARLES STANLEY The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
CHARLES STANLEY One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. A...
CHARLES STANLEY Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us ...
CHARLES STANLEY Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i...
CHARLES JENCKS Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami...
CHARLES EASTMAN The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
CHARLES DICKENS I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
CHARLES DICKENS There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
LARRY CHARLES I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impa...
LARRY CHARLES I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ...
CHARLES BOWEN We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i...
CRAIG CHARLES I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
CHARLES BARKLEY There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
CHARLES DICKENS 'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c...
CHARLES KENNEDY I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee...
CHARLES PLATT You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van...
CHARLES LINDBERGH I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a...
CHARLES COMISKEY Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust...
CHARLES BUXTON The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY I could never hate anyone I knew.
CHARLES LAMB Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many oth...
CHARLES DANCE By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more...
CHARLES SAATCHI Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ...
CHARLES WOLFE I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pompos...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any...
CHARLES TUPPER My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that mom...
CHARLES KELLEY I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w...
CHARLES DICKENS We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official...
CHARLES PEGUY We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ...
CHARLES MACKAY Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously ...
CHARLES MICHEL In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, ...
CHARLES MICHEL God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
CHARLES WESLEY Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.
CHARLES READE The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th...
CHARLES HUGHES We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES HUGHES Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w...
CHARLES DICKENS There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
CHARLES DICKENS At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al...
CHARLES DARWIN To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...
CHARLES DARWIN False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...
CHARLES DARWIN I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explan...
CHARLES DARWIN Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
CHARLES DARWIN How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue ...
CHARLES DUHIGG Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
CHARLES RICHARDS There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, ...
CHARLES DUHIGG You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your d...
CHARLES SCHWAB All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer instal...
CHARLES PLATT I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun...
CHARLES SOULE These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for thr...
CHARLES STURT Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear...
CHARLES DICKENS You have been the last dream of my soul.
CHARLES DICKENS I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
CHARLES DICKENS As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand wha...
CHARLES SCHWAB My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on...
CHARLES KURALT I'd rather go by bus.
PRINCE CHARLES A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hit...
CHARLES YOST Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happ...
CHARLES DICKENS I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could re...
CHARLES SAATCHI This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
CHARLES II Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf...
CHARLES CONNOLLY No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
CHARLES STEINMETZ Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
CHARLES LUCKMAN Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to ...
CHARLES PLATT I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
CHARLES EVERS The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to cont...
CHARLES DARWIN I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much belove...
CHARLES DARWIN Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
CHARLES DARWIN The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is impor...
CHARLES DARWIN It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most resp...
CHARLES DARWIN It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong'...
CHARLES DARWIN ...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o...
CHARLES LAMB The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
CHARLES ELIOT You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
CHARLES BUXTON Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, wor...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each ot...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, u...
CHARLES BURNEY She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
CHARLES LAMB Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say gra...
CHARLES LAMB These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide...
CHARLES LAMB We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion hu...
CHARLES COLTON Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
CHARLES JAMES Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DEGAULLE Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterint...
CHARLES BASS The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER