Carilynn Collection Quotes & Sayings

Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. — William Shakespeare

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. — M. Scott Peck

I realize that the Qur'an teaches Muslims that the distinction between questioning Islam and attacking the Muslim community is impossible to maintain, — Peter Townsend

If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's. — Tana French

We live in a complicated society, Bromley - one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering? — P.J. Parker

...women are not delicate. I don't know why men invariably harbor that delusion...women are more steadfast, even hardier, than men. That is an essential, don't you see? The continuance of the race depends far more on the female than on the male. — Louis Tracy

You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it. — Jeremy London

His sentences are in homely English, and yet there is something Roman in the easy handling of clauses, and something Greek in their ascent from analogy to idea. — Jocelyn Gibb

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it's exciting, and if you do it every day it's exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it's not good any more. — Andy Warhol

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To attempt to speak of what has been, would be impossible. Abyss has no Biographer - — Emily Dickinson

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive. — Nick Hanauer

The wheels of justice - they're square wheels. — Barbara Corcoran