Charles Dickens Quotes

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

Charles Dickens

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• I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Together
  • Magic
  • London

• You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • You
  • Never
  • Bend

• People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Great
  • Age

• I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Love
  • Me
  • Wait

• In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.

  

  Xavi
  • Game
  • Player
  • Better

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Want
  • Justice
  • Big

• Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Work
  • Music
  • Nature

• No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don't know if I'd even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It's more fun.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Nasty

• Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Person
  • Write
  • Pencil

• My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Door

• 'They say the church spire interferes with their bloody television reception.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Church

• In the denial of disorder there is order.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • World
  • Nature

• I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Music
  • Country

• I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

  

  Paul von Hindenburg
  • Mind
  • Serious

• The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Free
  • Horse

• I think that I must be the only person who left California and headed to Dublin in pursuit of a career in film. The arrow is pointing in the other direction in most people's minds.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • People
  • Career
  • California

• I and others like me believe Timerman was chosen by President Kirshner, first as Argentina's U.N. ambassador and then as foreign minister, among other reasons because he does not hide his Jewishness and his relations with the Jewish community and, therefore, can be a 'fig leaf' for her policy.

  

  Pepe Eliaschev
  • Believe
  • Community

• The U.S. must continue to carefully withdraw troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on assessment of the ground conditions so we do not leave our Afghan partners unable to guarantee long-term security or risk Afghanistan becoming a terrorist safe haven again.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Long
  • Risk

• - and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Time
  • Terrible
  • Respite

• If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

  

  Charles Dickens