Charles Dickens Quotes
....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.
Quotes to Explore
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
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I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
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We are removing the most important cultural roadblock to accepting the role of God as creator.
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I don't even like parties.
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If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
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That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.
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Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there.
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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
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One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.
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I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.
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Our goal is to see a nice development to give you a gateway entry into your community in the south and the west that is in keeping with your high standards.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
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I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.
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Some people have got big mouths, and some people were always distressed that I was selected as the candidate to run for the Conservative Party.
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John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
