Charles Dickens Quotes

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

Charles Dickens

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• Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Style
  • Color
  • Identity

• From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Identity
  • Equality
  • Blow

• I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Identity

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Political
  • Identity

• I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • College
  • Politics
  • Identity

• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• 'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Lost
  • Air

• We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Depend

• I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Identity
  • Week

• To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Style
  • Identity
  • My Own

• By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Writing
  • Identity
  • Communication

• Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • American
  • Proud
  • Gay

• With so many incidents of identity loss via tape, some are wondering if they should get off tape.

  

  Charles Curtis
  • Identity
  • Incidents
  • Tape

• We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Different
  • Friends

• Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'

  

  Dale Archer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Power

• Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Identity
  • Established
  • Cigar