Charles Dickens Quotes

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

Charles Dickens

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• You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

  

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
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• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

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• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

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• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
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• The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
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• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
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• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
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• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Important
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• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
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• There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

  

  Salman Khan
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  • Writer
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• It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Lost
  • Better
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• I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?

  

  Barry Jenkins
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• The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

  

  Kara Walker
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• They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

  

  Barbara Amiel
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• Misbah is rated far higher outside Pakistan than within. Afridi is rated far higher in Pakistan than outside!

  

  Harsha Bhogle
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• He spared the child and spoiled the rodI have not sold myself to God!

  

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• In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.

  

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• Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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  • Relationship
  • Faithful

• I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!

  

  John Travolta
  • Great
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• The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • God
  • Scene
  • Blighted