Charles Dickens Quotes

He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it.

Charles Dickens

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• I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

  

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• I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

  

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• On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• I think the legacy was set because the way George Mitchell was the leader enabled Tom Daschle to be the leader he is. It carried on the spirit of integrity and of reform, of also working both with committee chairmen but bringing in the newer members to be able to have a voice and a say and participate in the deliberations, to always look at a modern way of doing it.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
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• There are no prizes for average performance.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

  

  L. Todd Rose
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• The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.

  

  L. Todd Rose
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• For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years. This has been underpinned by strong growth in profits so that, notwithstanding the rise in share prices, P/E ratios have been declining on average.

  

  Ian Macfarlane
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• If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

  

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• I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
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• Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
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• I'm an utterly average, total geek.

  

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• People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

  

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• Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

  

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• If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

  

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• Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

  

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• Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

  

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• I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time.

  

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• The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

  

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• A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

  

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• Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essential ideas, and some of those practices are abusive.

  

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• Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

  

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• He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Average
  • Intoxication
  • Calculation