Charles Dickens Quotes

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

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• It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
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• I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
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  • Decision

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
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  • Hindsight

• Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Good
  • Important
  • Food

• In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • Best
  • Story

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Husband
  • Idea
  • Kid

• I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Black
  • Wisdom

• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • She
  • Mom
  • Sweet

• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hollywood
  • Gangster
  • Classy

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Not Knowing

• The leaders of Europe always seem to emerge from the same elite, the same general frame of mind, the same schools, and the same institutions that rear generation after generation of politicians to this day. They take turns implementing the same policies.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Same

• SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
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• I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Tapes

• When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Better

• Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.

  

  Haris Pasovic
  • Europe
  • Geographical concept

• The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Liberty
  • Contemporary
  • Interfere

• The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.

  

  Thomas More
  • Men
  • Country
  • Mind

• I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

  

  Gertrude B. Elion
  • Science
  • Suffering
  • Grandfather

• Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Suffering
  • Afraid
  • Loves