Charles Dickens Quotes

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

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• We get to a point where we're like, you know what, one day we're just not gonna be here anymore, so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Know
  • Day
  • Enjoy

• I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Imagine

• Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Fall
  • Moving
  • Face

• Man's got his woman to take his seed He's got the power - oh She's got the need She spends her life through pleasing up her man She feeds him dinner or anything she can. She cries alone at night too often He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all. Only women bleed...

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Work
  • History
  • Wife

• The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Future

• I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Listening
  • Hiking

• I know what it means to be stopped by police. I've been stopped by police a lot.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Police

• I ended up living in braids. It was the '90s - thin braids were very popular - and my mom took me to a lady's kitchen. I got it done, and I've never stopped.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Done
  • Mom

• Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Life
  • Real
  • Simple

• I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Good
  • Great

• 'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

  

  Luke Bracey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.

  

  Chris Christie
  • Time
  • Future
  • Party

• Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Words
  • Speak
  • Destiny

• It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. ....Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ nothing can shake.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • History
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• Survival must come before civilization.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Survival
  • Civilization

• I find no fault in Him."...You can find fault in anyone else, but you can find no fault in Jesus. Holy, harmless, undefiled, sinless: there He is! Christ is God's way to man; Christ is man's way to God. Christ is the true Jacob's ladder. By Him the penitent sinner, the believing soul, the redeemed child of God may come unto the Father and enter into the house of many mansions.

  

  George W Truett
  • Father
  • Christ
  • Fault

• I think you form a bond of different personalities where even without saying a word you challenge each other to be good. You don't want to be the weak link in the chain.

  

  Don Sutton
  • Good
  • Different
  • Challenge

• There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

  

  Alan Blinder
  • Business
  • Buy
  • Sell

• We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.

  

  William Kristol
  • World
  • Healthy
  • Reactions

• Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Chain
  • Pause
  • Formation