Christopher Quotes
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Don´t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.
You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.
These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
Children see magic because they look for it.
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.
Some people feel like they don't deserve love so they walk quietly into the empty spaces.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.
The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.
If anything happens, I'm going to pin you to my back and never let you off." I love you too." - Saphira and Eragon
The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity