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

• Life
• Hours
• Appreciate
• Offers
• Wallowing

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

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

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Data

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

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Attention
  • My Life

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 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
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

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

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Know

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• 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

• Mindy is just one of those people... she's just got a hell of a life going for herself. She's just really interesting and interested in the world and the larger things.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 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
  • Think
  • Dream

• 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
  • Great

• 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
  • She
  • Soul

• My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • Life
  • Important

• Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is fully formed and readily expressed in the subtle, mobile mind-stuff of the Region of Concrete Thought, where the archetype of the coming dense body is built.

  

  Max Heindel
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Character

• I wrote a song with a guy named Brian McKnight, who's a huge R&B guy.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Guy
  • Song

• I certainly had this fascination with monsters and vampires as did Tim and whatever this darkness, this mystery, this intrigue. And then, as you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Monsters
  • Fascination
  • Vampires

• Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• 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