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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• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• 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

• The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• 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

• I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Pretty
  • Explore
  • Loved

• I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Day
  • Woman

• 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

• I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few songs for a guy there named Jimmy Ritchey. Through that meeting, I met another couple guys and ended up getting a publishing deal in Nashville.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• 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

• I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Party
  • Win
  • Election

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

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • May
  • Society

• To London's Europhiles, Britain is obviously 'part of' Europe. But, in the age of jet travel, cellphones, wire transfers and the internet, we are less bound by physical proximity than ever. Yet Britain for the first time in history has chosen to be imprisoned by geography and to disconnect itself from its own culture.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Time
  • History
  • Age

• There are no signposts in the sea.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Choices
  • Sea
  • Signposts

• Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Moon

• Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasiesBut most of us just dream about the things we'd like to beSadder still to watch it die, then never to have known itFor you, the blind who once could seeThe bell tolls for thee... - Losing It (1982)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • World
  • Live
  • Dream

• 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