Charles Booth Quotes & Sayings

If Pandora hadn't opened the box, somebody else would have."
"There was never any hope it could remain sealed for ever?"
"Not really." [ ... ] "You see, Hope was one of the Spites imprisoned in the box."
My companion frowned. "Why did Hope have to be shut away?"
"Because it always lied. And, true to form, after its release, it deceived mankind into believing the other Spites could be overcome. They couldn't, of course, but thinking they could at least made them seem bearable. — Robert Goddard

They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived. — Irving Stone

The only preparation or participation required to unleash the power of intention is a connection to the conscious intelligence field, which can be attained in many ways, one of the best being meditation. — Deepak Chopra

Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste. — Leon Max

I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own. — Dolly Parton

But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically. — Vanessa Mae

I am a big believer in letting your own personal freak flag fly. — Kirsten Vangsness

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter. — Michael Schumacher

Hope and faith underlie a promise,
and love energizes men to realize it. — Toba Beta

He sometimes believed that the compulsion to make fiction was no more than a bulwark against confusion, maybe even insanity. It was a desperate imposition of order by people able to find that precious stuff only in their minds ... never in their hearts. — Stephen King

I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami. — Charlie Sheen

treachery was in it. He slipped — J.R.R. Tolkien

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically. — Richard Dawkins

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets. — Hippocrates