Inspirational Agatha Christie Quotes & Sayings

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it. — Agatha Christie

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary. — Olympia Dukakis

The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits. — Cesar Pelli

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure. — Robert Ryman

It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy. — Agatha Christie

One does what one can, not what one cannot. — Agatha Christie

The past is the father of the present. — Agatha Christie

Nah, that's not true. — Rick Ross

Weaver always says freedom is like Sloan's Liniment, always promising more than it delivers. — Jennifer Donnelly

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you. — Joseph Campbell

If I bring forth what is inside me, what I bring forth will save me. — NoViolet Bulawayo

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express — Agatha Christie

If you don't prepare, you could lose everything. If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you've lost nothing. — Gerald Celente

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity. — Agatha Christie

To every problem, there is a most simple solution. — Agatha Christie

I believe in detox. I think detox is smart. You've got a guy who's in an opiate cycle or a dope cycle or something, and he can't get out of it. You shut him down long enough so at least his body can start working for itself again. — Charlie Sheen

A brave new world. There isn't anything really like that, is there?"
"You don't believe in it?"
"Do you?"
"There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves. — Agatha Christie

The Bible says we must choose two ways of life. — Billy Graham

If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes. — Agatha Christie

In case, I would prefer to say, that some circumstances should strike me in a different light to the one in which it struck you. Human reactions vary and so does human experience.

~Hercule Poirot — Agatha Christie

Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre ... A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle. — Romain Rolland

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. — Agatha Christie

Life is hard. People can't be trusted. Vigilance is key. Be wise about whom you love, and when you do love, do it with every fiber of your being. Till death do you part. — David DiBenedetto

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power. — Rutherford B. Hayes

A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love. — Tahereh Mafi

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie. — Cole Porter