Charles Dickens Quotes

"Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!"

Charles Dickens

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• There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

  

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• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

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• It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

  

  Larry Hagman
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• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

  

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• In life go straight and turn right.

  

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• Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
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• A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

  

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• Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

  

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• Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

  

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• If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

  

  Warren Ellis
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• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

  

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• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

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• I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

  

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• Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

  

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• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  

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• I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

  

  Iris Chang
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• It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

  

  Okakura Kakuzo
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• "Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it!" said Mrs Wickam, shaking her head. "My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don't owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!"

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Spirits
  • Grudge