Charles Dickens Quotes

I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason – but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

Charles Dickens

• Love
• Help
• Reason
• Against
• Beggar

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

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• What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.

  

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• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

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• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

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• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

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

  

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• For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Real
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• It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

  

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  • Attention
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• We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

  

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  • Together
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• I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

  

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  • Up
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• From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.

  

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• I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

  

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• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

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• I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

  

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• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

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• I won't join another band again.

  

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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

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• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

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• In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

  

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• China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.

  

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• I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

  

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• I was not born to share the hate, but love.

  

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• I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason – but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Love
  • Help
  • Reason