Lewis Carroll Quotes

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

Lewis Carroll

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• All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

  

  Ovid
  • Evil
  • All Things
  • Corrupt

• Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Misrepresented

• Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

  

  Euripides
  • Judgment
  • Fortune
  • Helps

• She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Burden

• James Hetfield, I mean, the minute he plugs in his guitar and adjusts the tone knob, he comes up with the world's greatest riff.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Mean
  • Guitar
  • Riff

• Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Hate
  • Understood
  • Furious

• What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Paint
  • Direct
  • Empty

• [Falling pound] makes us more competitive.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Fall
  • Pounds

• We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and the spiritual. We must make clear in what respects our epoch differs from others and in what respects it is similar.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Spiritual
  • Forces

• Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Time
  • Type
  • Tempted

• God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Man
  • Motives

• Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Belief
  • Development
  • Morality

• There's always a polemic in my clothes.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Clothes
  • Polemics

• To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Virtue
  • Mankind
  • Ridiculous

• If you criticize others, they don't dare to hurt you. If you are perfect, nobody can criticize you.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Hurt
  • Criticize

• Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Literature
  • Romantic
  • Lying

• All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Suffering
  • Wanting
  • Lack

• One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Motives
  • Alliteration
  • Human Beast