Lewis Carroll Quotes

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more.

Lewis Carroll

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• We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Important
  • Live

• True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Philosophy

• It was bad, but it was some other slightly less piquant flavour of bad.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Bad

• I amused myself playing with the journalists.

  

  Brigitte Boisselier

• Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach a consensus - not perfect, by any means - but something that we can be proud of, nonetheless.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Time

• I think, probably when I was 15 or so, I was going through a really hard time with my family, and I just felt really helpless - I didn't know how to put anything I was feeling into words, and I was really confused, and I felt like nobody would hear me, but I didn't even know what to say.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Time
  • Family
  • Words

• After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking.

  

  David Grann
  • People
  • Remember
  • Memories

• Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

  

  Lyman Trumbull
  • Great
  • May
  • Respect

• Foreign policy is inseparable from domestic policy now. Is terrorism foreign policy or domestic policy? It's both. It's the same with crime, with the economy, climate change.

  

  David Miliband

• Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

  

  Dennis Ross

• It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'.

  

  Denis Dutton
  • Education
  • Question
  • Hand

• Young pitchers don't throw enough in the minor leagues, and when they get to the majors, they don't have the stamina; their arms haven't been built up.

  

  Bruce Sutter
  • Up

• At Tesla, we don't go into a community and think we're going to sell one or two cars.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Community

• As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

  

  Lucy Punch
  • Long
  • Funny

• I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Simple

• Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

  

  Leslie Charteris
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• I have had fear in the past, yes. I've learned to fight it. But I still have my moments. I just have to remind myself that fear is all within your mind, and that you're only holding yourself back when you give in to it. Even fear of success can be scary.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Past

• Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Men
  • Age
  • Science

• I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I try to stand by that code, especially as a young Black woman in this industry. I try to walk the walk and talk the talk.

  

  V. Bozeman
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Truth

• The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Single
  • Trouble
  • Lonely

• I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Extraordinary Things