Charlotte Quotes

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!

There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

I always learned to be philanthropic... to give back.

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves

I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

All truth contains an echo of sadness.

If quarrelling be really the renewal of love, theirs had been renewed once a day at all events, and frequently much oftener.

Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic.

I find NY very inspiring, there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in NY like nowhere else.

I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.

Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.

Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.

I had an appreciation for clothes and style starting at a young age, my mom was always very fashionable and I loved playing dress up in her closet. So I think my passion for design was always there.

I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.

I don't see myself becoming a superhero.

There is a God! the sky his presence shares, His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth, Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

When we come to the end of our days, the little things will seem so unimportant compared to how well we've loved, laughed and treasured our lives and loved ones.

We are generally punished by where we have sinned.

One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.

It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.

I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?

Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.

His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.

His voice sounded like molten metal. As if he had something thick at the back of his throat and it was making him sound deeper and richer than he actually was.

Just that one word—sound—sent a strong answering pulse through her body. His tongue curled around syllables that weren’t there, like a promise. This is what you’ll get, if you just let me hear.

He suggested devils, skulls, harsh masculine drawings. This thing was…heart poundingly good. She wanted to pluck it, and bury her face in it, and keep it in a vase by her bedside.

Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.

Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?

I had been allowed to believe in man's innate goodness for the twenty-two years of my life, and I had hoped to carry the belief with me to my grave.

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

I write because I cannot NOT write.