Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.

Charles de Lint

All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.

Charles Dickens

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

Charles Caleb Colton

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

Charles Dickens

But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.

Charles Dickens

Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.

Charles Dickens

The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.

Charles Dickens

The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.

Charles Spurgeon

Some people are never content with their lot, let what will happen. Clouds and darkness are over their heads, alike whether it rain or shine. To them every incident is an accident, and every accident a calamity.

Andrew Ferguson

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

Hans Jonas

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

Laurie Garrett

We can see hazards approaching and we have time to actually do something.

David Boothe

Effectively reporting seismic hazards considerably reduces vulnerability to it, if not totally eliminates it,

Henry Mintzberg

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

John Rawls

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

John Milton

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

John Fowles

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

Charlotte Bronte

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

B. C. Forbes

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Mike Hunter

We wouldn't be winning necessarily if it were all sunny days.

Stephenie Meyer

But on a clear, sunny day? How would she know to flee when she couldn't see any place for danger to hide?

W. H. Auden

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.