Charles Dickens Quotes
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.
Charles Dickens
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
Ramez Naam
Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
Imtiaz Ali
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
Walter Isaacson
I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
Ralph Norman
People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
Rafael dos Anjos
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
Victor Mitchell
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
Barbara Amiel
Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.
Pete du Pont
The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.
Charles Dickens
