Charles Dickens Quotes

... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

Charles Dickens

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• It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • America
  • Comedy

• There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Life
  • Death
  • Strong

• Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Technology
  • Magic
  • Bubbles

• Everyone has a different opinion; every country has a different way of doing things. But I do believe that we need a regulatory body so that everyone who owns or manages wildlife is subject to inspection and rated on how well they look after the animals and how the communities benefit.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Country

• I don't want to be a celebrity.

  

  Jerry Springer
  • Celebrity

• Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

  

  Joanna Baillie
  • Pride

• I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

  

  David Lagercrantz

• CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Real
  • Done
  • Risk

• The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Female
  • MAle
  • Variation

• Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Together
  • Want
  • Stop

• If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• We have a rare chance to pursue a new path, a different, better future that delivers progress for both our peoples and the wider world. That's the opportunity before the Iranian people. We need to take advantage of that.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Powerful

• It really starts to extend what we call the intelligent information network.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Intelligent
  • Information
  • Starts

• Photography was a way for me to freeze time and to capture the moments that were happy and healthy. I saw a photo as a way to go back to a memory if I ever needed to.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Moments

• I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.

  

  Jack Roy
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Joy

• Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ is savior. The reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. The reality is that baptism, not Myers-Briggs, defines who I am.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Truth
  • Reality

• The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

  

  William James
  • World
  • Existence
  • Intimate

• A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Resistance
  • Tale
  • Atrocities

• ... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Consideration
  • Tale
  • Befriend