Christofalos Quotes & Sayings

Life is full of second chances. — Nicholas Sparks

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories. — Paulo Coelho

Today, for the mass of humanity, science and technology embody 'miracle, mystery, and authority'. Science promises that the most ancient human fantasies will at last be realized. Sickness and ageing will be abolished; scarcity and poverty will be no more; the species will become immortal. Like Christianity in the past, the modern cult of science lives on the hope of miracles. But to think that science can transform the human lot is to believe in magic. Time retorts to the illusions of humanism with the reality: frail, deranged, undelivered humanity. Even as it enables poverty to be diminished and sickness to be alleviated, science will be used to refine tyranny and perfect the art of war. — John N. Gray

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there. — Carmen Ejogo

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. — James G. Frazer

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way. — Chris Jordan

... no one is exactly sure of what they mean on any given subject until they have written their thoughts down; I similarly believe that we have very little understanding of what we have thought until we have submitted those thoughts to others who are at least as intelligent as ourselves. — Stephen King

Alexander von Humboldt's wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person's stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present. — Daniel Walker Howe

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession. — Eleanor Roosevelt

They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover. — Sebastian Junger

Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. — Richard Simmons

The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years. — Frank Spotnitz