C. G. D. Roberts Quotes

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.

In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.

Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

The lesson here is this: Do what God says to do, nothing more and nothing less. There is no game here. There is one move, and it belongs to God. Your job is to follow it.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

I've realized that you become a bully if you are just watching someone get bullied and you don't say anything. Speak up!

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

God will come into your plans. But the choice is yours whether you allow Him to begin it, or force Him to end it.

Trust is established by working around horses in an utterly predictable manner.

You know that place between sleep and awake? The place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you... Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.

Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.

The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.

You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL

The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.

Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

What about your crepe?" "Stuff It." "She's crazy about you," Mavis commented. "It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns.

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.

The horses are talking ... just listen.

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.

Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

London is my favorite place in the world. I love London. I think it has the best of L.A. and New York in one, and I have a really great friend there.