Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

Topics

FreeYouBurdenHimCamelMay

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

LifeResponsibilitySelf-RespectOwn

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

John P. Kotter

ChangeFailurePeopleTryingYou

I love math.

Max Charles

LoveMathI Love

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

Robert Green Ingersoll

MemoriesWorldSpeakPoorDeadOnly

I grew up watching 'Star Trek.' I love 'Star Trek.' 'Star Trek' made me want to see alien creatures, creatures from a far-distant world. But basically, I figured out that I could find those alien creatures right on Earth. And what I do is I study insects.

Michael Dickinson

LoveMeWorldFindAlienEarth

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.

Steve Cropper

GreatCountryMissouriBeenGospel

As you know, I'm all about victory for the underdog.

Stewart Rahr

VictoryUnderdogYouKnowAbout

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Shirley Hazzard

LoveTruthImaginationIntelligence

I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with my band, and with everything else I feel kind of uncomfortable. I don't think I'm socially awkward. I just prefer being behind a piano.

Tom Odell

LoveThinkFriendsUncomfortable

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

Mason Cooley

IdealDefectManyImmaturity

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.

Michel Hazanavicius

MyselfThinkDirectorJustForeigner

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Prem Rawat

HappinessYouTreasureWithinOwn

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