Lulls Quotes

• Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mind, Despair, Indifference

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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  We think too much and feel too little.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Thinking, Wicked World

  "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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  To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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• You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Philosophical, Wicked World

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• Why should poetry have to make sense?

  Charlie Chaplin

  Should, Make Sense

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• We might as well die as to go on living like this.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Goes On, Might, Wells

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• A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Lonely, Travel, Loneliness

  "Charlie Chaplin's Los Angeles: a black and white odyssey" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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• Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Actors, Want, Fads

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• Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Remember You, Remembers You, Stoops

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• Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.

  Paul Reiser

  Quiet, Problem

  Paul Reiser (2011). “Couplehood”, p.137, Bantam

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• We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

  Hammond Innes

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.

  E. M. Broner

  Order, Certainty, Ritual

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Lightning

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• Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Spring, Institutions

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.23, Heron Dance Press

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• Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

  Virginia Woolf

  Flower, Wine, Sleep

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• And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sleep, Names, Shade

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.856

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• The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

  Mark Twain

  Artist, Waiting, Messages

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• Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.

  Gerry Lopez

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God, we will not!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Names, Damnation

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2009). “Sermons on the Last Days”, p.97, Hendrickson Publishers

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• It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Summer, Flower, Air

  "A Song for Summer".

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• Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Ambitious, Way

  Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway

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• What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

  Georges Bernanos

  Mother, War, Lying

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.154, Da Capo Press

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