Charles Dickens Quotes

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

Charles Dickens

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• There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • World
  • Small
  • Cuba

• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Religious
  • Vision

• Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • She
  • Job
  • Look

• But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Question
  • Nothing
  • India

• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Think

• I don't look too far ahead.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Look
  • Far
  • Ahead

• Most government and corporate leaders would have trouble getting people to follow them out of a burning building. One way you can tell the worst of them is that they talk about leadership a lot. I doubt Winston Churchill ever used the word. Or, for that matter, Attila the Hun.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Leadership

• O let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Live
  • Daily

• Wait a minute! I am not a mystic. Trying to find out the laws of nature has nothing to do with mysticism, though in the face of creation I feel very humble. It is as if a spirit is manifest infinitely superior to man's spirit. Through my pursuit in science I have known cosmic religious feelings. But I don't care to be called a mystic.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Feelings
  • Spirit

• I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Father

• Whatever I might have imagined a terminal diagnosis would do to my spirit, it summoned quite the opposite - the greatest appreciation for life itself. So I will never give up, and I will never give in.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Life
  • Up
  • Appreciation

• In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.

  

  Ciara
  • Time
  • World
  • Song

• There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.

  

  Kent Brantly
  • Country
  • Death
  • Health

• The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

  

  John Katzman
  • May
  • Education

• For me, I feel like God is intuition and an inner knowing. I think it's difficult to be successful without that because that's where you have to come from if you're really going to knock it out of the park. For me, it's more a sort of a universal energy.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • God
  • Energy
  • Intuition

• And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.

  

  Max Born
  • Science

• Better late than never.

  

  Matthew Henry

• The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

  

  Bill Maher
  • People
  • Black
  • Hate

• My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Washington
  • My Friends
  • Assistance

• I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Despite
  • My Friends
  • British Accent

• I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Knowing
  • Move
  • My Friends

• I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • Order
  • Ordinary
  • Speculation

• I shut my eyes in order to see.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Eye
  • Order

• "Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • My Friends
  • Chronic
  • Repine