Van Dyck Charles Quotes & Sayings

My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work. — Liza Minnelli

School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership. — Wendy Kopp

Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. — Adyashanti

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you. — Jim Brown

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert

He was so damn sexy, with beautiful bronzed skin that showed off his Mediterranean heritage. — Katie Reus

A cowboy never takes unfair advantage - even of an enemy. — Gene Autry

Many of us will also find it hard to abandon our belief that in man himself there dwells an impulse towards perfection, which has brought him to his present heights of intellectual prowess and ethical sublimation, and from which it might be expected that his development into superman will be ensured. But I do not believe in the existence of such an inner impulse, and I see no way of preserving this pleasing illusion. The development of man up to now does not seem to me to need any explanation differing from that of animal development, and the restless striving towards further perfection which may be observed in a minority of human beings is easily explicable as the result of that repression of instinct upon which what is most valuable in human culture is built. — Sigmund Freud

Purity of heart is what enables us to see. — Pope Benedict XVI

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it. — Virginia Woolf

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it. — Walter Lippmann

A life which does not go into action is a failure. — Arnold Joseph Toynbee