Charles Dickens Quotes
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.Charles Dickens
Quotes to Explore
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I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
Pamela Anderson -
The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
Iain Sinclair -
For me, you look at the beginning of his career, the man couldn't even make weight. That's how I found out about Henry Cejudo to begin with. 'Oh, Henry Cejudo misses weight again.' I'm like, who's this guy who keeps missing weight. When the UFC signed him, I was like, 'Great, you guys signed another guy who can't make 125.'
Demetrious Johnson -
But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
Bill Murray -
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
Brooke Shields -
In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.
Martha Smith
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
Al Pacino -
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
Lois Wyse -
You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.
G. Campbell Morgan -
If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.
Dale Carnegie -
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Jack Roy -
When you mathematize something you distill its essence.
W. Brian Arthur
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It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.
Thomas A. Edison -
We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.
John Stuart Mill -
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
Sara Sheridan -
We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.
Karl Edward Wagner -
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Do you realize what we accomplished today? Today the spaceship was born.
Walter Dornberger