Charles Blackman Quotes & Sayings

The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast. — Gerry Lindgren

I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family. — Becky G

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors. — Gaspar Noe

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such
a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them. — Oscar Wilde

Think not, O Mortal, vainly gay.
That Thou from Human Woes is free,
The bitter cup I drink today,
Tomorrow may be drunk by thee. — Jane Grey

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing. — Neale Donald Walsch

Never rush into an investment without prior research and deliberation. The Tanakh says, "Without deliberation, plans go wrong" (CJB, Proverbs 15:22). "One rushing to get rich will not go unpunished. He who is greedy rushes after riches, not knowing that want will overtake him" (CJB, Proverbs 28:20, 22). — H.W. Charles

Why, all of you," answered the other, surprised. "You don't want to stay out in the rain, do you? — Richard Adams

Who can say what obscure forces were then at work in a heart that had never been tamed? — Allain Fournier

When the mother and father love their children, they do not compare them, they do not compare their child with another child; it is their child and they love their child. But you want to compare yourself with something better, with something nobler, with something richer, so you create in yourself a lack of love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning. — Rajneesh

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. — Cyril Connolly

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better. — Martha Beck

Fucker, I though to myself. So irritated by a stare!
I wonder what your reaction would have been if you had lived under occupation for as many years as I had, or if your shopping rights, like all of your other rights, were violated day and night, or if the olive trees in your grandfather's orchards had been uprooted, or if your village had been bulldozed, or if your house had been demolished, or if your sister could not reach her school, or if your brother had been given three life sentences, or if your mother had given birth at a checkpoint, or if you had stood in a line for days in the hot August summers waiting for your work permit, or if you could not reach your beloved ones in Arab East Jerusalem....
A stare, and you lose your mind! — Suad Amiry

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is. — Craig D. Lounsbrough