Charles Macomb Flandrau Quotes

It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.

Charles Macomb Flandrau

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• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  

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• My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

  

  Samuel Adams
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• India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

  

  Gary Wright
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• So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

  

  Wanda Jackson
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• I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

  

  Osric Chau
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• One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nice

• The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Power
  • Joy

• I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Lead

• I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
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• One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Happiness

• As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Short

• Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life

• It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Life
  • Good
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• It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star Game and an old timer's game.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Life
  • Game
  • Star

• She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle - a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Life
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  • Soul

• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Rock

• I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.

  

  Don McCullin
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Food

• Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Children
  • Money

• I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Music
  • Different

• You either are or you're not.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Either

• It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.

  

  Charles Macomb Flandrau
  • Life
  • Hours
  • Appreciate