Charles Dickens Quotes

When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

Charles Dickens

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• Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Society
  • Free
  • Political

• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Free
  • Small
  • Me

• Free love sounds great.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Great
  • Love
  • Free

• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • God
  • Spirit

• The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Free
  • Army

• If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • You
  • Spirit
  • Place

• The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Parents
  • Passion
  • Spirit

• Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Faith

• My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Distance

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • May
  • Death
  • Relationship

• I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Death

• You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Life
  • Free
  • You

• I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Live
  • Free
  • Childhood

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Free
  • Majority
  • Listens

• We need clarification regarding the death penalty. It's different in many states... It's a bit different throughout the country, so I look forward to Judge Gorsuch being on the court, Justice Gorsuch being on the court, and bringing some clarification to those issues.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Different
  • Country
  • Death

• It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.

  

  Daniel S. Greenberg
  • Intelligent
  • Degrees
  • Alacrity

• I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.

  

  Betty Wright
  • Running
  • Competition

• I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

  

  John Milton
  • Language
  • Learn
  • Foreing

• The wages of gin is breath.

  

  Addison Mizner

• O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

  

  John Milton
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Pure-eyed

• When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Free
  • Spirit