Charles Dickens Quotes

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

Charles Dickens

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• Friendship

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • True
  • Human

• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Soul
  • Star
  • Thought

• We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Spirit

• There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Today
  • Technology
  • Fire

• I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Opinion
  • Fire
  • Wind

• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • House
  • Play
  • Fire

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• Love is the beauty of the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • For Her

• 'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Soul
  • Mortgage
  • Norm

• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Place

• R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Soul

• The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Love
  • She

• I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.

  

  S.C. Stephens
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Fire

• There's never enough hours in the day to do what you want to do. What I've become OK with is that not everything can be done today. As long as I can get that time in with my son, then I can get all of the other stuff done today or tomorrow.

  

  Jane Krakowski
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Generations

• Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.

  

  Mickey Hart
  • Heart
  • Blood
  • Rhythm

• What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Soul
  • Fire
  • Friendship