#la

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

#brother #did #ever #had #him

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#another #beyond #could #equal #extinction

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#claims #communism #crisis #fact #in fact

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#big enough #came #communism #conscious #enough

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplation #less #life #live #makes

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplative #less #life #live #miserable

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#laughed #most #wasted #which

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#came #crowd #effects #few #first

The first time we all played as a band, I think it was in January 1998, in Jonny's bedroom. ↗

— Will Champion

#bedroom #first #first time #i #i think

Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool. ↗

— Will Champion

#cool #first #had #later #our