Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Charles Dickens

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

Charles Dickens

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

Charles Dickens

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

Charles Dickens

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

Beth Orton

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

David Mamet

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

Curtis Jackson

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves,

Jennifer Love Hewitt

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me.

Chris Zylka

My greatest fear is failure.

Faith Hill

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

Cassandra Clare

I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.

Elliott Gould

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

Chip Kidd

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

David Hume

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

Boris Pasternak

We must discover security within ourselves.

Daniel Kahneman

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Dag Hammarskjold

For all that has been, Thanks. To all that shall be, Yes.

Claude M. Bristol

We usually get what we anticipate.

Angela Carter

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

William Shakespeare

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.