Famous Quotes Name C

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.

Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

There are two ways of constructing a software design One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I am like SPAM Some people like me, some people hate me, but nobody knows what I'm made of.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Al Czervik Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid.

Judge Smails It's easy to grin When your ship comes in And you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile, Is the man who can smile, When his shorts are too tight in the seat.

Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

Danny Noonan I haven't even told my father I'm not gonna get that scholarship. I'm gonna end up working in a lumberyard the rest of my life. Ty Webb What's wrong with lumber I own two lumberyards. Danny Noonan I notice you don't spend too much time there. Ty Webb I'm not quite sure where they are.

Sandy Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course Carl Spackler Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key. Sandy Not golfers, you great fool. Gophers. THE LITTLE BROWN, FURRY RODENTS. Carl Spackler We can do that. We don't even need a reason.

Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE.

Spalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You're probably high already and you don't even know it.

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.

Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.