David Copperfield Quotes

'Never,' said my aunt, 'be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.'

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• We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Man
  • Worry
  • Race

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Done

• I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Lying
  • Run
  • Office

• A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Movie
  • You
  • Powerful

• Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Everything
  • Greed
  • Destroys

• I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

  

  Walt Whitman

• I am beginning to lose patience With my personal relations. They are not deep And they are not cheap.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Beginning
  • Deep
  • Patience

• The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach,The Ogre cannot master Speech:About a subjugated plain,Among its desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips.

  

  W. H. Auden

• What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • World
  • Country
  • Reality

• No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • People

• HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

  

  Charles Simonyi
  • Time
  • Free

• When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Life
  • Live

• Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

  

  James Hillman
  • Cold
  • Depression

• I feel like, sometimes, plus-size women get scared to show skin... but summer is the time that we can enjoy doing that.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Time
  • Women
  • Summer

• In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • People
  • Hope
  • Deep

• Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, 'You've got fame. You've got admiration. You've done this; you've done that.' As far as I'm concerned, I haven't done anything. I've just fulfilled a dream of competing.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Done
  • Dream

• My Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Home
  • Aunt

• If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Believe

• Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Interesting
  • Support

• If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Man
  • Stupid
  • Fellow

• 'Never,' said my aunt, 'be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.'

  

  David Copperfield
  • Aunt