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.

Agnetha Faltskog

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

David Levithan

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

Lauren Oliver

When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.

Olga Kurylenko

When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.

Cassandra Clare

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away. - Clary Fray

Jonathan Carroll

When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also the person I wanted to share the trivia of my life with, because that too is part of the magic of concern: Whatever you live is important to them and they will help you through it.

P. C. Cast

And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically.

Kate Morton

when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.

Cary Fukunaga

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

Billy Dee Williams

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

Claude Debussy

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

Andrew O'Hagan

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

Amy Tan

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

Immanuel Kant

***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!

James A. Baldwin

But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.

Holly Robinson Peete

The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you.

Ellen Hopkins

You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.