Top 34 Chartier Quotes
#1. It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it.
Emile Chartier
#2. It is those who are different that make the biggest difference in the world.
Shana Chartier
#3. There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.
Emile Chartier
#4. If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.
Shana Chartier
#5. Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
Emile Chartier
#6. Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'
Emile Chartier
#7. When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.
Emile Chartier
#8. Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose.
A.J. Flowers
#9. It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.
Emile Chartier
#10. We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
Emile Chartier
#11. One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
Emile Chartier
#12. As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.
Emile Chartier
#13. People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.
Emile Chartier
#14. Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.
Emile Chartier
#15. information. But last night, I - " "Burdened?
Norah Wilson
#16. I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart I turn you out of doors switch off the lights throw water on the fire I turn you out of doors stubborn desire.
Alain Chartier
#17. Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?
Emile Chartier
#18. It's got to ask uss a question, my preciouss, yes, yess, yesss. Jusst one more question to guess, yes, yess," said Gollum.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#20. So are you saying I'm your Superman?"
--- Josh Copeland
Dawn Chartier
#21. I have only one thing to say to the melancholy man: 'Look into the distance.' ... When you look at the stars or the ocean's expanse, your eye is completely relaxed; once your eye is relaxed, your mind is unfettered.
Emile Chartier
#22. Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let's face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman.
Kate Atkinson
#23. Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are.
Shana Chartier
#25. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
Emile Chartier
#26. There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Emile Chartier
#27. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
C.S. Lewis
#29. It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other
Bobby Robson
#30. Ted Cruz is a nice guy, a likeable guy. He's not crazy. He's not nasty. And he certainly is not - he's not a liar. He's a down - down the middle guy that I - anybody could trust. He has got plenty of integrity.
Rush Limbaugh
#31. If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
Emile Chartier
#32. Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.
Shana Chartier
#33. What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
Emile Chartier
#34. America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Israel Zangwill
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