Christopher Quotes

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

Find peace in where and what you are.

I love fashion, I love architecture and I love image making so if I can, I would put all these three in one pot.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.

What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven

When we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.

I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet

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.

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

You don't get a rebate at the end of your life for living with an idiot.