Christopher Darlington Morley Famous Quotes
"Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment."
"If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them."
"There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration of beauty.
Christopher Darlington Morley Quotations
"Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied."
SpiderMan
"Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built."
Herbert Samuel
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
Gifford Pinchot
"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed."
Peter McWilliams
Grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
Caecilius Statius
Jacoby I'm gonna teach you the meaning of pain. Elizabeth You like pain Try wearing a corset.
Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed."
Whitney Moore Young
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
J Danforth Quayle