Charlaps Hamburg Quotes & Sayings

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The fact that the biosphere responds unpredictably to our actions is not an argument for inaction. It is, however, a powerful argument for caution, and for adopting a tentative attitude toward all we believe, and all we do. Unfortunately, our species has demonstrated a striking lack of caution in the past. It is hard to imagine that we will behave differently in the future.
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds
and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.
We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind. — Michael Crichton

The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess. — Fulton J. Sheen

I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet [in Titanic] sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that, I think. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

There's nothing wrong with white people. They just ain't black. — Ken Follett

There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that
using logic as a weapon. — Sally Wentworth

You can master tantric yogic poly-orgasmic Wonder Sex but you're still gonna die alone. — Brad Warner

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb. — Ogden Nash

True photographs tend to remain on the streets, the story almost about to enter the edge of the frame of the snapshot or the shutter closing a moment too late, the story having just abandoned the frame. — Doug Rice

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. — Eve Ensler

I don't know what I think about Jesus, but I know what I think about Aslan. — Jo Walton

Later he would declare that not getting hit was like running through rain and not getting wet. — James D. Bradley

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again ... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days. — Anne Lamott

The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily. — G.I. Gurdjieff