Charles Dickens Quotes

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead.

Charles Dickens

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• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Changes
  • Looking

• In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Think
  • Party
  • Religious

• Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Political
  • Religious

• They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.

  

  Edmund Burke

• The taxidermist is a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Light

• To eat, teeth must meet.

  

  Iris Murdoch

• Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

  

  Larry Niven

• Proof must be solid break walls of facts.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Beginning

• I don't want little kids reading my comics.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez
  • Kids
  • Reading

• I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

  

  Jay Hernandez
  • Pretty
  • Basketball

• I'm always thinking as an outsider, and I'm always mindful of whether a company can be impactful on a global basis. Frankly, I'm paranoid about anyone anywhere who could be a competitive threat.

  

  Danny Rimer
  • Thinking

• Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

  

  Ajay Devgan

• I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back problem. I remember it vividly. It looked like there was a chance he was not going to finish. He had that look in his eye. Then, somehow, he found the wherewithal to dig a little deeper, and suddenly he wins the thing, and he's a different player.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Player

• Because I'm such a die-hard New Yorker, I was skeptical of Montreal being a New York double.

  

  Meghann Fahy
  • Die

• Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

  

  Jacques Roumain
  • Work
  • Long
  • Business

• This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Dance
  • Existence
  • Mountain

• Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Music
  • Song
  • Drama

• I believe honestly that I can talk. I believe that I have the ability to reason, I have logic, I have compassion, I have understanding. If we talk there's no problem you know what I'm saying. But that's not what happened. People used what they heard in media and that's how they come at me, and then you know we got a clash.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Believe
  • Understanding

• Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • True
  • Law
  • Alone

• Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Clouds
  • Deep Waters
  • Sea Of Thought