Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.

Charles Dickens

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

Charles Dickens

The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.

Charles Dickens

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.

Charles Dickens

Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

Charles Stanley

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Alan Watts

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.

Alan Watts

To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

Alan Moore

I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

Sean O'Faolain

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

Colin Mochrie

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

David Eddings

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

Bill Vaughan

There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

Eugene Ionesco

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

An optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist sees the whole.

Mark Twain

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Alexander O'Neal

My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.

Don Gibson

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

Alicia Witt

Whatever you've accomplished there's always more to experience .

Amy Smart

But I have to say, probably when I'm about 30 I'll be pretty, not settled, but happy with what I've accomplished so far. I'm happy where I am now.

Henri Matisse

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

James A. Garfield

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

J. D. Salinger

... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

Lil Wayne

I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.

Paul Walker

When you put good will out there, it's amazing what can be accomplished,