Quotes About Carl

#1. The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

Carl Honore

#2. My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

Carl Crawford

#3. The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world.

Carl Becker

#4. THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities

Carl Paladino

#5. Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man

Michael Finkel

#6. I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.

Marv Albert

#7. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

Carl Sagan

#8. Then I figured it would be a good plan to hire a few sailors to work for me, get them out to my yacht, get them drunk, commit sodomy on them, rob them and then kill them. This I done.

Carl Panzram

#9. Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.

Carl Honore

#10. The nature of life on Earth and the search for life elsewhere are two sides of the same question - the search for who we are.

Carl Sagan

#11. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

Carl Sagan

#12. The fog comes on little cat feet.

Carl Sandburg

#13. There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Carl Sagan

#14. Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

Carl Jung

#15. Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

Carl Jung

#16. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

Carl Sagan

#17. The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

Bob Woodward

#18. Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.

Carl Reiner

#19. You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

Carl Andre

#20. I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

Carl Everett

#21. If there is as a continuum from self-reproducing molecules, such as DNA, to microbes, and an evolutionary sequence continuum from microbes to humans, why should we imagine that continuum to stop at humans?

Carl Sagan

#22. As grumblers go, Stubble was in a league of his own.

Ian Livingstone

#23. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.

Carl Sagan

#24. Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#25. All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.

Carl Jung

#26. The chance of receiving a signal from a civilization exactly as advanced as we are should be minuscule. If they were even a little behind us, they would lack the technological capability to communicate with us at all. So the most likely signal would come from a civilization much more advanced.

Carl Sagan

#27. I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

Carl R. Rogers

#28. Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

Carl Icahn

#29. Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Carl Schurz

#30. I wish all mankind had one neck so I could choke it!

Carl Panzram

#31. I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.

Carl Lewis

#32. Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

Carl Jung

#33. Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.

Carl Jung

#34. Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

Carl Jung

#35. Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

Carl Jung

#36. When he came to, the eels were still being removed from him and Anvar was congratulating one of the rivermen. The man had smashed open a barrel of eels and covered both dwarf and zombie with them.

Ian Livingstone

#37. Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

#38. Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

Carl Yastrzemski

#39. The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

Carl Hiaasen

#40. I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

#41. I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

Carl Paladino

#42. I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

Carl Sagan

#43. And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

Carl Jung

#44. Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.

Carl Jung

#45. Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited architectural masterpiece, then you do not help them to become builders of their own.

Carl-Gustaf Rossby

#46. I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out.

Carl Sagan

#47. Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don't have a clue

Carl Henegan

#48. PRINCIPLE is likewise such a law for action, except that it has not the formal definite meaning, but is only the spirit and sense of law in order to leave the judgment more freedom of application when the diversity of the real world cannot be laid hold of under the definite form of a law.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#49. War is ... a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#50. I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.

Carl R. Rogers

#51. All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Carl Sagan

#52. The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#53. The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

Carl Sandburg

#54. The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

Carl Jung

#55. Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

Carl L. Becker

#56. Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Carl Sagan

#57. Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.

Carl Sagan

#58. When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

Carl Sagan

#59. Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#60. Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with the same female), we might guess that promiscuous societies were uncommon in the immediate human past.

Carl Sagan

#61. It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

Carl Jung

#62. Sunshine is just beyond the clouds Carl Joesph Gunner

Karen Kingsbury

#63. Had a nice conversation with Tim Cook today. Discussed my opinion that a larger buyback should be done now. We plan to speak again shortly.

Carl Icahn

#64. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Carl Pope

#65. When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.

Richard Lewis

#66. Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

Carl Jung

#67. I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.

Carl Reiner

#68. If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

Carl Jung

#69. Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

Carl Bernstein

#70. Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

Carl Hiaasen

#71. I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#72. Whenever armed forces ... are used, the idea of combat must be present ... The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#73. You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

Carl Sandburg

#74. For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Carl Jung

#75. I was prepared to get knocked out myself trying to knock him out, because then I could sleep at night knowing that I've given my best.

Carl Froch

#76. The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#77. Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#78. This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

Carl Jung

#79. There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.

Carl T. Rowan

#80. Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#81. Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

Carl Sandburg

#82. Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.

Carl Henegan

#83. Here I saw a city rise and say to the peoples round world: Listen, I am strong, I know what I want.

Carl Sandburg

#84. Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

Carl Van Vechten

#85. If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing or castrating us, then you are a fool for thinking that way. That only makes bad matters worse.

Carl Panzram

#86. I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Carl Sandburg

#87. When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when you want to get that publication in The New York Times or wherever? It encourages people to play right into it.

Carl Hart

#88. Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Carl Sandburg

#89. For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

Carl Sagan

#90. Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

Carl Jung

#91. Ideas are not just counters used by the calculating mind; they are also golden vessels full of living feeling. "Freedom" is not a mere abstraction, it is also an emotion. ~Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life, Pages 310-311.

C. G. Jung

#92. Watching the cab speed off, Wahoo's father looked forlorn. "It's like she's leaving us twice," he remarked. "What are you talking about, Pop?" "I'm seein' double, remember? There she goes - and there she goes again.

Carl Hiaasen

#93. The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Carl Jung

#94. The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#95. Never tell people when to meet; tell them when to leave.

Jordan Carl Curtis

#96. Choose your friends carefully but don't worry about your enemies, they will choose you

Carl Henegan

#97. We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

Carl Levin

#98. If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.

Carl Sagan

#99. If God's words determine reality, then of all the things a pastor does, speaking the words of God to the congregation is the most important.

Carl R. Trueman

#100. The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature

Carl Sagan