Charka Charcoal Quotes & Sayings

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity. — Dieter Rams

Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this Eve to the grinning Unknown. A million doors had once been barred against the evil visitants, a million prayers mumbled, a million candles lit. There was something majestic about the idea, Henderson reflected. — Robert Bloch

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. — Isabel Allende

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! — Michel De Montaigne

Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it. — Mark Buehrle

The people cannot govern themselves, they must be governed by somebody. If they will not do their duty without being half forced and half humbugged, somebody must force them and humbug them. Some energetic and capable minority must always be in power. Well, I am on the side of the energetic minority whose principles I agree with. The Revolution is as cruel as we were; but its aims are my aims. Therefore I stand for the Revolution. — Anonymous

The human imagination ... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. — John Berger

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books. — James Redfield

We live in a society where people feel they have to be right, no matter what. If we subscribe to that narrow view, the critical gray area is compromised. — Carlos Wallace

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience. — St. Catherine Of Siena