Chatwin Family Quotes & Sayings

I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again. — John Steinbeck

People who are in pain hurts other people, people who are happy makes other people happy, they don't mistreat other people. When you think of it that way it makes it easier to forgive and have a little bit more compassion towards difficult people. — Jeanette Coron

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving. — John Major

The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker. — George Frisbie Hoar

I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting. — Olivia Thirlby

Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can't bring a metaphor to a gunfight. — Rudy Francisco

Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy. — Ray Bradbury

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up. — Tracey Emin

Affection is the source of self-confidence, happiness, security, and a comfortable mental state. — Amanda Mosher

What is most important is that the brand African cinema is going beyond African cinema. — Jihan El-Tahri

The extension of the empathic bond is the social glue to establishing a global network of millions of human beings. It's probably not surprising that in the most technologically advanced countries, where self-expression is high, the older theological consciousness, with its emphasis on strict external codes, the communal bond, and a hierarchically organized command and control, is losing its hold. Religious hierarchies make less and less sense in a fl at, networked world. — Jeremy Rifkin

A careful reading of the Old and New Testaments shows that idolatry is nothing like the crude picture that springs to mind of a sculpture in some distant country. The idea is highly sophisticated, drawing together the complexities of motivation in individual psychology, the social environment, and also the unseen world. Idols are not just on pagan altars, but in well-educated human hearts and minds — Richard Keyes

The presence of the problem of man's free will, though unexpressed, is felt at every step of history. All seriously thinking historians have involuntarily encountered this question. All the contradictions and obscurities of history and the false path historical science has followed are due solely to the lack of a solution of that question. If the will of every man were free, that is, if each man could act as he pleased, all history would be a series of disconnected incidents. — Leo Tolstoy

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits ... — Helen Keller