Charles Dickens Quotes
"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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Love is sweeping the country.
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When it comes to guys, my dad is the measure of the perfect man. And that's a pretty tough standard to match up to.
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We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.
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It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.
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All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
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I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?
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The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.
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We've made our list and want consumers to check it twice, ... Preventing needles tragedies and providing a safe environment are the best holiday gifts parents can provide their children.
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The result, the Walker Colt, was one of the most effective and deadly pieces of technology ever devised, one that would soon kill more men in combat than any sidearm since the Roman short sword.
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In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.
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I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.
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In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.
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O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
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Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
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EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will.
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I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.
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"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future.
