Charles Dickens Quotes

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

Charles Dickens

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• I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Feel
  • Dead

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
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  • Politics
  • Argument

• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Said

• It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Live
  • Die
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• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Age
  • Fear
  • Dark

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Me

• Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Bored
  • Busy
  • Fish

• It will work. I am a marketing genius.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Work
  • Genius
  • Marketing

• There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Hate

• Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Love is the HeavenToward which the flowers, rivers, nations, atoms, creatures - you and IAre rushing by the straight path of action right,Or winding laboriously on error’s path,All to reach haven there at last.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Action
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• Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Together
  • History
  • Fun

• I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Teacher
  • Drama
  • Texas

• I kind of hate over-explanation in comics.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Hate

• I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

  

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue
  • Taken
  • Head
  • Photograph

• Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Sacrifice

• We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Hope
  • Conditions
  • Weapons

• Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Love
  • Snow
  • November

• You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Interested
  • Barrister