Charles Macomb Flandrau Quotes

The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one 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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• Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • America
  • War

• The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • High
  • Nice

• It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Know
  • Clothes

• When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Years
  • Old
  • Pounds

• Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • God
  • Country
  • Goal

• A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Job
  • Bad
  • Nice

• Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Identity
  • Harmony

• Michael Jackson, who can sing, and is a good lookin' guy - but ain't the most masculine fellow in the world.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • World
  • Good
  • Guy

• Alvin had met true evil in his life, but he still persisted in thinking it was awful rare, and the word was bandied about too much by those who didn’t understand what real badness was.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Real

• No detail is too minor to note.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk

• During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Divorce

• You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.

  

  Jim Jordan
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Guy

• There are career waiters in Los Angeles, and they're making over $100,000 a year.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Career

• The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Reality
  • Small

• History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Long
  • History
  • Freedom

• Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Desire
  • Kiss

• In Syria, for some time, they have been trading hostages for a number of things: for weapons, for money, for political influence, and for favors.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Time
  • Money
  • Political

• First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

  

  Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Support

• You like me, you don't like me, you love me, you hate me. I'm gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Hate
  • I Hate

• Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Song
  • Dream

• The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

  

  John Sununu
  • Business
  • Service
  • Search

• The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour.

  

  Charles Macomb Flandrau
  • Life
  • Past
  • Pain