Old age is a shipwreck.
- Charles De Gaulle - In Old Age
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
- Richard Avedon - In Art
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
- Charles Baudelaire - In Art
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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
- Charles Horton Cooley - In Art
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
- Charles Horton Cooley - In Art
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Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
- Richard Nelson Bolles - In Business
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For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.
- Charles A. Jaffe - In Business
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It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
- Charles A. Jaffe - In Business
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Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
- Charles A. Jaffe - In Business
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Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.
- Charles A. Jaffe - In Business
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
- Charles Kettering - In Business
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
- Charles Kettering - In On Change
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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
- Charles Lindbergh - In Dreams
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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
- Richard M. Nixon - In Equality
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Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
- Richard Lamm - In Government
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Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
- Prince Charles - In History
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
- Charles De Gaulle - In History
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
- Charles De Gaulle - In History
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How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
- Charles De Gaulle - In History
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For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage of riches and mystery and death. These illusions have distorted its landscape and contorted its history.
- Richard E. Lingenfelter - In History
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Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
- Richard M. Nixon - In History
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Intelligence
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach - In Life
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I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
- Charles Schulz - In Life
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
- Richard Bach - In Love
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - In Love
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Love
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Marriage
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
- Charles Lindbergh - In Nature
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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
- Charles Lindbergh - In Nature
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Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.
- Richard Selzer - In Nature
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Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
- Richard Aldington - In Patriotism
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire - In Poetry
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A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- Rene Char - In Poetry
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The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
- Richard Rosen - In Poetry
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
- Charles Simic - In Poetry
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
- Charles Simic - In Poetry
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
- Richard Armour - In Politics
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- Charles De Gaulle - In Politics
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
- Charles De Gaulle - In Politics
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Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.
- Charles McC Mathias, Jr. - In Politics
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I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.
- Charles McC Mathias, Jr. - In Politics
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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
- Charles Krauthammer - In Politics
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
- Richard Burton - In Religion
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Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Religion
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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
- Erwin Chargaff - In Science
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
- Charles Kettering - In Science
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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
- Charles Pierce - In Science
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Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
- Richard Selzer - In Science
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
- Charles Horton Cooley - In Society
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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
- Charles Kuralt - In Society
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If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
- Charles Barkley - In Sports
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My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.
- Charles Barkley - In Sports
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These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
- Charles Barkley - In Sports
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You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
- Charles Barkley - In Sports
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There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
- Charlie Lau - In Sports
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Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
- Charles Luckman - In Success
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Everything that can be invented, has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell - In Technology
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
- Richard P. Feynman - In Technology
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
- Charles Caleb Colton - In Time
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A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
- Richard M. Nixon - In War
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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
- Charles Sumner - In War
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
- Charles Dickens - In Words to the Wise
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
- Richard Bach - In Workplace
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There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
- Richard Nelson Bolles - In Workplace
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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
- Richard Nelson Bolles - In Workplace
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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
- Ann Richards - In Workplace
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