C. F. Powell Quotes

GUNS ARE NOT THE ISSUE. WE ARE.

Bring a torch, if you've got one. It's as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese.

The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.

A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.

Our shortcomings drive us, motivate us – to work harder or realize another purpose/talent.

If you want a job making toys, move to China.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time.

He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.

In the seven years or so that had passed since I had last seen him, Sir Magnus Donners had grown not so much older in appearance, as less like a human being.

One’s capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.

Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.

Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.

Corporate greed controls political will.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expression of the national will - implies a kind of innocence.

People should read more.

Already a connoisseur of boredom, Tony extended his acquaintance with Salisbury's furnished lodgings and the cheap residential hotels of Andover.

Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police—whichever work the shorter hours.

It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.

A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work learning from failure.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family friends and society are the natural enemies of a writer. He must be alone uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Sometimes it's torturous to think of things we can't possibly have.

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.