Charles Dickens Quotes

La difficulté d'écrire l'anglais m'est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l'on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France!

Charles Dickens

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• You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Support
  • Always
  • Might

• The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • Reality
  • You

• I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Different
  • Family

• Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Season
  • Starting

• My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Opportunities

• I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Today

• Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Remember

• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • People
  • Important
  • Questions

• I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Think
  • Short
  • Personal

• 'Just Can't Let You Go' is a song about passion. It's when you have such a strong passion and love for someone or something that your heart just can't let it go. Whether it's a special boy, girl, or that feeling you get when performing on stage or playing a sport. For me, my passion is music. I just can't let it go!

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Feeling

• That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!

  

  Lana Turner
  • Time
  • Man
  • Makeup

• They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem big because there wasn't anything else drown it out at the time?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Time
  • Wonder
  • They Say

• Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Academic
  • Specialization

• I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It's all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Respect
  • Control
  • Focus

• Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fearless
  • Risks
  • Optimism

• I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • King

• People think it's so easy to make hamburgers. That consistent quality in so many restaurants, in that many parts of the world, is not an easy thing to do.

  

  Margo Georgiadis
  • People
  • World
  • Quality

• I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It's such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Different
  • Amazing
  • Artist

• I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Trust

• When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Up
  • Work
  • Weekend

• I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • People
  • Feeling

• La difficulté d'écrire l'anglais m'est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l'on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France!

  

  Charles Dickens