#con

I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market. ↗

— James Chanos

#always #aspect #balances #bones #checks

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#career #conclusion #drawn #i #knows

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#any #being #context #costume #designer

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#disease #get #i #i can #infected

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#both #conflict #cure #everybody #give

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#contemplation #goodness #our #own #solely

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#consists #dog #forget #hate #iniquity

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid. ↗

— Josh Charles

#career #considered #even #i #kid

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#difficulties #felicity #highest #human #strive

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#constant #contrived #directly #opposite #pain