Charles Dickens Quotes

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

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• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
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• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
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• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Confidence
  • Belief
  • Champion

• I know I look super young.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Know
  • Look
  • Young

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Lost

• My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Books

• I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Independent
  • German
  • Tradition

• The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Data

• All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Up
  • Everyone
  • Legal

• I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Fiction

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

  

  Abraham Benrubi
  • Character
  • Me
  • Always

• I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Long
  • Love
  • Passion

• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Money
  • Want

• Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Space
  • Passion

• I knew since third grade I wanted to be Jim Carrey. His freedom, his goofiness, his crazy, loud, sudden energy. I told my family I was going to be a pediatrician, but in the back of my mind, I was like, 'Nope, I'm going to be the biggest movie star ever.'

  

  King Bach
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Movie

• Women are hit especially hard in regions of ongoing conflict. Before, during, and after conflict, women bear the brunt of the consequences of war. They are left as the providers and guardians, responsible for rebuilding their country one family at a time.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Time
  • Women
  • Country

• I'm still involved in the business of Cheap Trick, so I keep my eye on that kind of stuff.

  

  Brad M. Carlson Cheap Trick
  • Business

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Family
  • Friendless
  • Kindered