Charles Dickens Quotes
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
Charles Dickens
Quotes to Explore
I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.
John Burnside
I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
Janet Jackson
Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
Angela Davis
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
Alvar Aalto
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
Umberto Eco
I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
Van Morrison
If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!
George Clooney
All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades
Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind;
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream;
The man we celebrate must find a tomb,
And we that worship him, ignoble graves.
William Cowper
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
Friedrich Nietzsche
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.
Celine Dion
It's amazing, 'cause sometimes when we're onstage, I feel like somebody's just moving the pieces. I'm just going, 'God, we don't have any control over this.' And that's magic.
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.
Mike Farrell
