Doyly Carte Quotes & Sayings

You have been in every line I have ever read. — Charles Dickens

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy. — Charles Stuart Calverley

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet

In my mind, there's nothing wrong with it. I don't instinctively know what's wrong with it. There is a language of the ghetto. There is a language of the barrio. And it's not good. There is an attitude. There is a behavior. There is a mindset and we wouldn't anybody to be stuck in it. — Rush Limbaugh

The terrible sacrifice offered to Kali in the name of religion enhanced my desire to know Bengali — Mahatma Gandhi

Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply. — Miyamoto Musashi

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. — Louis C.K.

Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible. — Yanni

Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends.
It's just ironical that you are in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone who is not good enough to be your best friend. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

All this is a natural part of the aging process, in which you find yourself with less to do and more opportunities to eat your guts out regretting everything you have done. — Richard Ford

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be. — Chris Van Allsburg

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. — Alice Miller

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended. — El Lissitzky

There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process. — John McCain