Quotes of Raymond Chandler

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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

- Raymond Chandler

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“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ”

- Og Mandino

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ No matter what you do in life, make sure your juniors are learning something good from you. ”

- Parul Prashar

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night. ”

- A. J. McLean

“ To the wellorganized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ Tuhan kan nggak mungkin langsung sedekah ke orangorang, ya kalianlah sedekah duit kalau punya duit, sedekah ilmu, sedekah senyum. Masa sih kalau sudah gitu Tuhan gak bales cintamu? Tapi gak mungkin dia belaibelai langsung rambutmu, sentuh bibirmu. Maka Tuhan ciptakan “wakil”nya, yaitu pacarmu. Maka doalah, “Tuhan, semoga pacarku ini betulbetul orang yang kau pilihkan untukku. ”

- Sujiwo Tejo

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ”

- Richard Carlson

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ You are like nobody since I love you. ”

- Pablo Neruda