Charline Quotes & Sayings

Were it right for us to dictate the choices for others, than I daresay we ourselves would be without the ability of choice as a "higher power" would have no doubt dictated ours for us. Instead, we must always remember that while we can help others on their path, they alone must be left with the freedom to walk it... — Charline Ratcliff

Money earns interest; integrity earns respect. — Charline Ratcliff

Use the Internet to get off the Internet! — Scott Heiferman

Time does not move linearly just because we think it does. And the past does not cease to exist simply because we have moved beyond it. — Charline Ratcliff

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world. — Italo Calvino

Always remember, kind words are free, and yet, they are often priceless. — Charline Ratcliff

There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness to nonexistence, with all the attendant fear and humiliation of absolute helplessness, it would be very hard to live. It would be unbearably obvious that death is inscribed in everything that constitutes life, that any moment of your existence may be only a breath away from being the last. We would be continuously devastated by the magnitude of that inescapable fact. Still, as we mature into our mortality, we begin to gingerly dip our horror-tingling toes into the void, hoping that our mind will somehow ease itself into dying, that God or some other soothing opiate will remain available as we venture into the darkness of non-being. — Aleksandar Hemon

Death didn't just limit itself to stealing your heart, it went after everything that fed your soul, too. — Heather R. Blair

Workouts should be tailored to the participant rather than the participant tailored to the workout. — Charline Ratcliff

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. — Zig Ziglar

Love means making time for that special someone - even when you don't have the time. — Charline Ratcliff

Dorian sat quietly for a moment and then said, "We all straddle the abyss, Penny. If you never look down, how will you ever know who you are or what you will become? Your dad could never be ashamed of you, because falling in that abyss is part of the process of growing up. — Karen Gammons

The very volutes of the capitals might have curled up with the cold. — G.K. Chesterton

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter. — Elizabeth Edwards

When something upsets you in life, you only have two choices: Get over it or die mad. — Charline Ratcliff

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade! — Laura Linney

That was awesome. I wasn't expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited. — Charline Labonte

Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first. — Cecelia Ahern

The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity. — Edward Gibbon