Charles Dickens Quotes

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Remember
  • Man

• It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Easy

• Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • History
  • Team
  • Tough

• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Myself
  • Pride
  • Being

• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Look
  • Forward
  • Sure

• I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Thankful

• Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Society
  • Face
  • Celebrate

• You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Today
  • Parents

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Is

• Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Truth
  • History
  • Story

• Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Man

• As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Investment
  • Method
  • Enterprises

• Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

  

  Matthew Macfadyen

• Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • House
  • Parents
  • Dating

• I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

  

  Matthew Goode
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Education

• There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and children, Elvis, Apollo, Walt Whitman, rhythms of its politics. Manthology is a remarkably honest and enormously heartening collection.

  

  Nancy Eimers
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Wife

• I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Parents