Charles Chesnutt Quotes & Sayings

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world. — Harvey Weinstein

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. — Charles W. Chesnutt

I was nobody until.... now.... Now I think that I'm somebody! — Deyth Banger

There's time enough, but none to spare. — Charles W. Chesnutt

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things — Charles W. Chesnutt

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. — Charles W. Chesnutt

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too. — Mark Millar

Direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task. — Charles W. Chesnutt

Race prejudice is the devil unchained. — Charles W. Chesnutt

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. — Charles W. Chesnutt

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation. — Charles W. Chesnutt

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings ... — Charles W. Chesnutt

Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away. — Charles W. Chesnutt

Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow and empty. — Jennifer Estep

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost. — Charles W. Chesnutt

Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there. — Dick Clark

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived. — Charles W. Chesnutt

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. — Charles W. Chesnutt

If I controlled the world, no one would die before their laugh lines had time to set in. — Donna Augustine

A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. — James Madison

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it. — Gene Ween