Charles Dickens Quotes

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

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• No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Thoughts

• Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Health
  • Decisions
  • Insurance

• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • You

• I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • Never
  • Bedroom

• I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Politics
  • Bollywood

• One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Grief

• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Art
  • History
  • Words

• If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • People
  • Know
  • Story

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Hair

• There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Hate
  • Reason

• I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Good
  • Body
  • Information

• Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Know
  • Thought

• We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Moving
  • Two
  • Japanese

• 'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Find
  • Depression
  • Silver

• My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Look
  • Cooking

• I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Find
  • Quiet

• There was a fence and there was this other van- So I go, 'Fence or van? Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and I said 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and bounced into the van.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Fence
  • Crashing
  • Van

• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• When you're a girl, you have to be everything, You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to - it's like, I can't be all of those things at once. I'm a human being.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
  • Nice
  • Sweet

• It sounds like the Boy Scouts want it both ways. They want to be private and do what they want, and they don't want to follow the government and society in not discriminating against people - and they want the government's money.

  

  Larry Taylor Canned Heat
  • People
  • Government
  • Boy

• A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

  

  Charles Dickens
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