Charles Dickens Quotes

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

Charles Dickens

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• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Stage

• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Time
  • Car
  • Driving

• There is no such thing as a black middle class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Black
  • Class
  • Middle

• I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • History
  • Me
  • Judge

• With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Rap

• I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Know
  • Practice
  • Prayer

• I speak 'with absolute certainty' only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any 'authority' let alone 'divine revelation'!

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Faith

• We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Dream
  • Kitchen
  • Custom-made

• A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Support
  • Doubt
  • Wall

• We ran him and he just couldn't run.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game

• If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • Great
  • Growth

• Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • True
  • Future

• There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the scriptures only as sources of inspiration and moral truth," and then ask in their smugness: "Do the revelations of God give us a handrail to the kingdom of God, as the Lord's messenger told Lehi, or merely a compass?"

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • God
  • Truth
  • Religious

• I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college girls are mean.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Food
  • College

• Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Heart
  • Gold
  • Classroom

• I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.

  

  Gary Panter
  • Money
  • Exactly
  • Spraying

• By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

  

  Epictetus
  • Circumstances
  • Injury
  • Touched

• Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Attention
  • Sacrifice

• All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Circumstances
  • Wonders
  • Breasts