Charikat Quotes & Sayings

The prompt Paris morning struck its cheerful notes - in a soft breeze and a sprinkled smell, in the light flit, over the garden-floor, of bareheaded girls with the buckled strap of oblong boxes, in the type of ancient thrifty persons basking betimes where terrace-walls were warm, in the blue-frocked brass-labelled officialism of humble rakers and scrapers, in the deep references of a straight-pacing priest or the sharp ones of a white-gaitered red-legged soldier. He watched little brisk figures, figures whose movement was as the tick of the great Paris clock, take their smooth diagonal from point to point; the air had a taste as of something mixed with art, something that presented nature as a white-capped master-chef. The — Henry James

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso

We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11. — Hillary Clinton

Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money. — Kate Reardon

A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition. — Claes Oldenburg

People never mean to do thingd that are hurtful, yet sometimes it just happens, through an intense moment, through brief rationalization, or by simply speaking words that only belong inside one's head. — Jessica Sorensen

Serenity of mind brings joy and happiness in life. — Debasish Mridha

Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative? — Richard Dormer

Perhaps it is not correct to say that she read it, for unfortunately the number of people who actually read magazines, papers or even books is very small indeed. — Doris Lessing

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man. — C.S. Lewis

Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves. — Maynard James Keenan

The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical items plugged into the faulty electrical circuit. — Steven Magee

For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by questions about our self-worth. As a consequence, we continually attempt to prove to ourselves and others that we are okay people, credible, trustworthy, and competent. — Robert D. Hare

The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough. — Orison Swett Marden

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. — Alphonse De Lamartine