Charles Sheldon (Charles Monroe Sheldon) Quotes

Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds . . . the race will survive.

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• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Single
  • Understand

• At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • End

• Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Soul
  • English
  • Funk

• Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Society
  • Legal

• As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Decision
  • Road
  • Walking

• It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Work
  • High
  • Quality

• My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Passion

• All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Boyfriend

• Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • May
  • Society

• Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

  

  James Brown
  • Family
  • Spiritual
  • Struggle

• There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

  

  Daniel O'Connell

• MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • World
  • Parents
  • Decision

• If Mom is healthy, then her child is more likely to thrive, more likely to have a better quality of life and, ultimately, better able to provide for his or herself.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Quality

• For some reason, I'm constantly attacked on social media in terms of how I dress. I've never understood that. That's been very hard.

  

  Alessia Cara

• My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • God
  • Help
  • House

• To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • You
  • Face

• 'Of course I deserve it,' I said, stroking Mojo. 'That’s the simplest thing about dealing with me, apparently. I always deserve the worst! The worst disloyalty, the worst betrayal, the worst abandonment! Lestat the scoundrel. Well, they have left this scoundrel entirely on his own.'

  

  Anne Rice
  • Betrayal

• I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • World
  • Real
  • Power

• Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Done

• Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds . . . the race will survive.

  

  Charles Sheldon
  • World
  • Moon
  • Mankind