Charles Templeton Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent. — Sendhil Mullainathan

And if wishes were horses, I'd have been run over in childhood. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Earth: the things that are solid, absorbed and still.
Water: the things that are fluid, changing and unpredictable.
Wind: the things that shift, evolve and challenge.
Fire: the things that damage, devastate and distroy.
The void: the things that are present through their absence — Elif Shafak

You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out. — Tom Daschle

When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too. — Tony Judt

You can't not look cool with a crossbow. — Norman Reedus

To be at peace, does not mean that you are amiss of every storm, it only means that you can find a calm within the storm. — Tania Elizabeth

Pas encore. Qa m'amuse."
"Really, Poirot!"
"Yes, my friend. I grow old and childish, do I not? — Agatha Christie

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. — Nicolas Chamfort

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe. — Alan Watts

I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen. — Tom Latham

But one afternoon Lila said softly that there was nothing that could eliminate the conflict between the rich and the poor.
"Why?"
"Those who are on the bottom always want to be on top, those who are on top want to stay on top, and one way or another they always reach the point where they're kicking and spitting at each other."
"That's exactly why problems should be resolved before violence breaks out."
"And how? Putting everyone on top, putting everyone on the bottom?"
"Finding a point of equilibrium between the classes."
"A point where? Those from the bottom meet those from the top in the middle?"
"Let's say yes."
"And those on top will be willing to go down? And those on the bottom will give up on going any higher?"
"If people work to solve all problems well, yes. You're not convinced?"
"No. The classes aren't playing cards, they're fighting, and it's a fight to the death. — Elena Ferrante

Wow you need to get some sun."
"Shut up. I'm Irish. — Kevin Hearne