Charles Dickens Quotes
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?Charles Dickens
Quotes to Explore
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Felix Dennis -
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney -
As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
Dan Rather -
We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
R. J. Cutler -
To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
Karl Shapiro
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
Aaron Sorkin -
As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
Daniel Alarcon -
I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
Mahesh Babu -
Women just love to shop.
Natalie Massenet -
I'm actually not on Twitter.
Rachel Bilson -
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
Parvesh Cheena -
Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
Oliver Sim The xx -
I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.
Olivier Theyskens -
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
Canelo Alvarez -
Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
Rachel Nichols
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I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.
Jimmy Swaggart -
I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics -
Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
Warren Farrell -
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.
Brian McKnight -
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens