Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Charles Dickens

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

Charles Caleb Colton

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Billy Joel

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

Diana Gabaldon

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Diana Gabaldon

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Edgar Friedenberg

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

Bill Nighy

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

Carolyn Porco

Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

Charlaine Harris

Life should imitate romance literature far more often.

Catriona Matthew

I am a little surprised, but delighted, to be back in it and with two rounds to go anything is still possible,

Diana Wynne Jones

Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.

Amy Winehouse

I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.

Pat Toomey

Laffey was in Washington making the rounds and I spoke with him then,

Marsha Sinetar

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.

Jay Haas

There's no cut, so I can get three rounds in,

Ryan Franks

It rounds out our offerings of I/O interconnects.

Luke Donald

It was one of those rounds where nothing was happening.

Justin Bartha

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.