Charles Dickens Quotes

I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

Charles Dickens

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• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

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• I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

  

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• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  

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• In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.

  

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• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  

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• It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

  

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• The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

  

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• This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

  

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• All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

  

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• I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

  

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• I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.

  

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• What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

  

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• There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

  

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• I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.

  

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• Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

  

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• Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history. Finally, a few trips to the library, and we have a pretty good sense of what all the masters said. They all said the same things. There is a mass discovery that Jesus is truth, the Torah is truth, Mohammed is truth, Krishna is truth, Buddha is truth, and so on. They are all truth and they are all among us now.

  

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• It comes down to cost, condition and space as to why the pool is closing. It's time to take action.

  

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• Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

  

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• The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

  

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• You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back to the way it was before and you guys are throwing knives at each other.

  

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• I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Condition
  • Fault
  • Good Sense