Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Dave Ramsey

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

Dane Cook

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

Jean Chretien

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

Mia Farrow

Life is about losing everything, gracefully.

Mike Tyson

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.

Margaret Mitchell

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything...

Viola Spolin

It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.

Tony Hsieh

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

Alain Prost

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot...

Catherine Bell

I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you

Kurt Vonnegut

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

Deepika Padukone

I am very scared to invest emotionally in a relationship.

Ed Sheeran

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

Sarah Garuti

When he got angry, he would have a tone of voice that really scared me.

Charles Manson

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

Ari Fleischer

Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'

Demi Moore

I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.