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

• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Religious
  • Internet
  • Now

• Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Environment

• 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

• I'm as honest as I can be.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Honest
  • I Can

• 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

• When you buy into the cultural idea of what's acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negative stereotypes and prejudices. That wouldn't work for me. I don't love to give advice to anyone, because we all have to make our own choices, but I'd want to live my life in truth.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

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

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Career

• I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

  

  Jeremy Brett
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• Policies aimed at reversing globalization will lead only to a decrease in real income as goods become more expensive.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Real

• There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee

• The unique innovation of the phonetic alphabet released the Greeks from the universal acoustic spill of tribal societies. (p. 70)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Unique
  • Innovation

• When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases - people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• 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