C.C. Franklin Quotes
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to risk anything, then the thing mustn't be so great at all.
Everything will work out... don't give up hope, remain calm.
....Charles laughingly observed, 'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.
The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.
We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest.
My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.
I don't talk ill about people I don't know, " said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.
The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.
We come by aurora, with a heavy and sovereign tread, with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders, with the apricity of light to crown our heads
And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.
The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.
The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.
Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.
Fear is the short road to death and this world, Changed by the flux of decay: Survival is the exception for weary men.From the new book The Waning
The dust of thirty years hung lifeless in shafts of morning light, the gilding of perfectly prim pages shone incanescent, the shriek of rolling ladders mourned in perennial soliloquy.
Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens.
How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?
Do what is right and what is good." -- Bryeison to Alasdair before going to his death on the battlefield.
The emotional trauma of a security breach can sometimes stay with a person for the rest of their lives. This is why the best prevention efforts are important for your family.
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.
I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.
The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.
Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others.
The captain’s eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living beyond those whom he would have given much to keep.
Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in.
If the sale of flesh could be made as easily as the sale of spiritual exemption, the prescience of a dedicated businessman might be well preserved.
I do not have respect for you who takes advantage of the soul that is kind and giving, for it is you who takes such liberties that becomes the ultimate fool.
What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right.
When you look at another person, see them as an extension of your thought or feeling. What you two thought or felt THEN, magnetically connected you two NOW.
The past is behind us, " said Boudicca, "but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders.
But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence.
Abuse really is its own alphabet. Those who have not gone through it cannot understand it fully. The echos of violence hang in subconscious long after the threat is gone.
A scientist does not have hope, sir. Hope is what a man has in the absence of answers, and once he does empirical experimentation, he replaces hope with knowledge and disappointment.
The feeling of 'turning into your dad' is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you.
