Charles Dickens Quotes

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

Charles Dickens

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• I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Dark
  • Minds
  • Dark Side

• Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Religious
  • Minds
  • Normal

• Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Ideas
  • Existence
  • Minds

• Minds ripen at very different ages.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Different
  • Minds
  • Ages

• People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

  

  Han Suyin
  • People
  • Minds
  • Souls

• Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Family
  • Hope
  • Minds

• We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Poetry
  • Generation
  • Minds

• I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Up
  • Stuff

• In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Simple

• I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • People
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Work
  • God
  • Prayer

• When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • America
  • College
  • Price

• Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Nature

• I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Up
  • Minds

• As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Live
  • Love

• Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Minds
  • Resource

• Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Happy

• If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Changes

• On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Power
  • Myself

• I think, hey, everybody has a right to change their mind.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Mind
  • Change

• I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Giving
  • Advice

• When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

  

  will.i.am
  • Spirals

• . . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

  

  Charles Dickens
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