Christopher Quotes
There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.
"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"
I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.
The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.
What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.
If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change" ~Oromis to eragon ,Brisingr~618
We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)
....avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!" -Angela
I do not need help destroying my relationship. I was raised by my father. I've completed a thirty-year seminar on the power of destroying relationships.
Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.
Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.
Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.
Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.
For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman.
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.
It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.
Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.
Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the brain-eating thing. Then they're going to IKEA, I guess
Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.
The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.
You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.
Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
Dad thinks vengeance is the coolest thing about the Lord. That, and turning water into alcohol.
I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.