Charles Dickens Quotes
The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.
Quotes to Explore
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When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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My main focus is to help people through music.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.
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My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.
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I just don't think people listen. I mean, they can't listen to a whole album closely without checking their iPhone or wanting to skip to their favorite song, or putting something else on, practically. That's why the zone out is a good thing.
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The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.
