The Atlantic Charter Quotes

#1. I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

James Callis

#2. Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

John Wilmot

#3. Our lives should be written in stone. Paper is too temporary - too easy to rewrite.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#4. President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

John Updike

#5. When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

Tom Cruise

#6. China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.

Chiang Kai-shek

#7. Now you're the Queen of Hardcore, but movies don't count!

Chris Jericho

#8. There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

Iron & Wine

#9. Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

Ian Paisley

#10. I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.

Zora Neale Hurston

#11. It is the LORD, who changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning....So, get over it! (ref. Daniel 2:21).

Josephine Akhagbeme

#12. In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#13. Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Bodhidharma

#14. Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

#15. When someone leaves you, it doesn't give you permission to run away from yourself too.

Dodinsky

#16. The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

John Steinbeck

#17. In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

#18. Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR's vision of America as a nation that keeps its word - a nation still committed to uphold the 'four freedoms' that President Roosevelt set down in the great Atlantic Charter of August 1941.

Nigel Hamilton