Charles Dickens Quotes

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Charles Dickens

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• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Love

• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
  • Christian
  • Adventure

• Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Help
  • Easy

• By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Perfect
  • Vision
  • Year

• We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Race

• I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Money
  • Charity

• People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.

  

  Edwin Morgan
  • People
  • City

• I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Never
  • Idea
  • Celebrity

• The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Important
  • Together
  • Single

• Cuban artists had, for a while, a privileged position within Cuba that is probably going to become slightly less restricted to them. I think they'll continue to join the international art world, so those people who are extremely successful will become even more so and those who are struggling will continue to struggle.

  

  Rachael Price
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!

  

  Byung Hun
  • Lost
  • Looks
  • Weight

• We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Responsibility
  • Happens
  • Our Lives

• When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Truth
  • Together
  • Relative

• It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • Trying
  • Purpose
  • Judgment

• There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heart
  • Moments
  • Longing

• We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

  

  William J. Perry
  • War
  • Age
  • Technology

• Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Responsibility

• Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Virtue
  • Essence
  • Loses

• Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Virtue
  • Patches
  • Linen