Tail End Charlie Quotes & Sayings

Is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty owed to yourself; for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society. — Mary Shelley

Across the world millions of lives are altered by the absence of the dead, but three members of Teddy's last crew - Clifford the bomb-aimer, Fraser, the injured pilot, and Charlie, the tail-end Charlie - all bail out successfully from F-Fox and see out the rest of the war in a POW camp. On their return they all marry and have children, fractals of the future. — Kate Atkinson

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake. — Oscar Wilde

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create. — Jason Silva

The only thing you have to know is that opening allows energy in, and closing blocks it out. Now you have to decide whether or not you want this energy. How high do you want to get? How much love do you want to feel? How much enthusiasm do you want to have for the things you do? If enjoying a full life means experiencing high energy, love, and enthusiasm all the time, then don't ever close. — Michael A. Singer

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow. — Dudley Nichols

I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it. — Daniel Everett

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself. — George Bernard Shaw

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Shut your fucking trap, Hawk — Kristen Ashley

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life. — Douglas Coupland

Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character. — Shannon L. Alder

I went into the house. I put on Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' at full volume, filled the glass to the brim with rum, without ice, and went back to the terrace. To gaze at the night and the dark sea and the night. — Pedro

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself. — Candace Bushnell

There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that! — Colin Trevorrow