Charles Dickens Quotes
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."Charles Dickens
Quotes to Explore
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
Mackenzie Astin -
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
Rachel Cohn -
I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
Wendy Kopp -
I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
Gaines Adams -
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
Carl Bernstein -
I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
A. N. Wilson
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Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.
Hailey Gates -
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden -
It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.
Laetitia Casta -
I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.
Katie Kitamura -
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Maya Angelou
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I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.
Anna Chancellor -
I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.
Francois Hollande -
For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
Oscar Wilde -
You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.
Al Hirschfeld -
Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people are not somehow behaving themselves properly.
W. Brian Arthur -
It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies.
Cass Sunstein -
The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
Pablo Sandoval -
I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
Taylor Swift -
Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."
Charles Dickens