Charles G. Dawes (Charles Gates Dawes) Quotes

For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

Charles G. Dawes

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• If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Different
  • Long
  • Man

• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Country
  • Better

• Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Up
  • You
  • Acting

• But he is pretty. God, I hope he's not an asshole. Do you think there's any chance he's both non-orifice and single? I mean, seriously. What are the chances?

  

  Laini Taylor
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed it this way - hints at what S.H.I.E.L.D. is and how they function within this Marvel movie universe which, as you know, is deeply based in the comic books.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Movie
  • Universe
  • Cool

• We must be sure to be governed by inner principle and not outer pressure.

  

  O. S. Hawkins

• A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • True
  • Knowledge

• Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Writing
  • Travel
  • Priority

• I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • My Life
  • Chaos
  • Addicted

• We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Child
  • Books
  • Library

• Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Cowardice
  • Pacifism

• As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Slaves
  • Human Life
  • Articles

• There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Law
  • Government
  • Wonderful

• The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

  

  William Blake
  • Heaven
  • Fool
  • Holy

• The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Play
  • Brilliant
  • Best Thing

• A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Together
  • Reason
  • Couple

• Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Sin
  • Despair
  • Mortals

• Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Common
  • Weapon
  • Commerce

• When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Silence
  • Easy

• Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

  

  Susannah McCorkle
  • Songs
  • Despair
  • Get Through

• The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.

  

  George Washington
  • Degrees
  • Experiments
  • Establishment

• For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

  

  Charles G. Dawes
  • Despair
  • Commerce