Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Charles Spurgeon

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

Alan Paton

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

Chris Cleave

And thus love makes fools of us all.

Darren Shan

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

David D. Burns

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Casey Affleck

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

William Shakespeare

Wishers were ever fools.

William Shakespeare

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

William Shakespeare

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Spurgeon

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Dell Leonard

We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how important free throws are.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Dave Barry

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Byron Katie

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

Kevin Hallinan

The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.

Leander Paes

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

Mark Ruffalo

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

Robert Walzel

When you think of Mozart's piano concertos, you think of them as masterpieces. He invested so much in them, since he wrote these for himself to play.

Jonathan Meyers

Tom runs a very tight ship. You do not turn up late and you don't muck around - he's strict with himself and everyone he works with.

Dick Cheney

Tom Ridge is not a candidate, because he took himself out, ... Wolf Blitzer Reports.

Robert Taggart

We know who the shooter is, ... It would be better for him to turn himself in before we have to find him.

Italo Calvino

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, the Lord Himself is the Appraiser, who distinguishes the counterfeit from the genuine.

Jesse L. Martin

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Travie McCoy

I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.

Laura Marano

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Donald Tusk

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

Clyde Tombaugh

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

Cecilia Bartoli

When you are accompanied by the instrument-on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice-you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

Chino Moreno

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Diane von Furstenberg

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

Allen Ginsberg

Things are symbols of themselves.

Alfred Korzybski

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

A. E. Waite

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Edward Sapir

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

David Mamet

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

Lisa Mendler

Helen is a symbol of the tenacity of our people.

Tony Morris

We wanted it to be local. We wanted it to be symbolic of our own difficulties in life.

Chris Cleave

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

Bo Bice

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

Edward Everett

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .

Bill McKibben

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

David Bowie

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Adrienne Rich

I came to explore the wreck.

Clarence Darrow

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Donald Trump

[Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

Corey Haim

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.