Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Wendy Larry

It's become a numbing factor. It doesn't matter.

Angela Davis

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Carl Gustav Jung

Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.

Danish Proverb

One should speak little with others and much with oneself

Janet Frame

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Frank Darabont

I find it doesn't pay to take oneself too seriously. And I like that sort of irreverence when I see it with other people.

Bruce Lee

To live is to express oneself freely

D. H. Lawrence

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Latin Proverb

What is done for another is done for oneself

Doris Lessing

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best

Chester W. Nimitz

If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Adam Braun

I realized that even big waves start with small ripples

Cynda Crawford

We're just going to see this in waves over and over again.

William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Claude Nicollier

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

Colin Baker

The waves of time wash us all clean.

David Byrne

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

John Calvin

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Ron Wood

Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Carine Roitfeld

When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.

Frederick Pollock

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

Michael Kors

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

Ira Glass

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

Samira Wiley

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

Ringo Starr

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.