Freckleton C Quotes & Sayings

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. — Jose Marti

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy? — Edith Head

Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers. — Robert J. Marks II

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket. — Ronald Reagan

The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see it for what it was. — Paul La Farge

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy. — William Shakespeare

And after the briefest flowering of understanding, my own generation had grown complacent. At some level, we must have started taking it for granted that the way the universe worked was now obvious to any child ... even though it went against everything innate to the species: the wild, undisciplined love of patterns, the craving to extract meaning and comfort from everything in sight.
We thought we were passing on everything that mattered to our children: science, history, literature,
art. Vast libraries of information lay at their fingertips. But we hadn't fought hard enough to pass on
the hardest-won truth of all: Morality comes only from within. Meaning comes only from within. Outside our own skulls, the universe is indifferent. — Greg Egan

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show. — Ricky Martin

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything. — Jill Abramson

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include ... well, EVERYTHING. — George Saunders

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk. — Cyril Connolly

I feel a little guilty only being an actor. — Blythe Danner

So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness. — Nirmala Srivastava

Doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time, — Jose Saramago

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. — Vladimir Lenin