Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dudley Warner

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Charles Dickens

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.

Charles Dickens

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content. “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Boris Yeltsin

We lack rubles, and that's where the delays come from,

Chris Riley

With weather delays in Chicago, it's a good option to go to St. Louis. This increases opportunity for travel to all destinations from Decatur.

Peter Scobie

Minority governments can find it more difficult to pass policy. There is the possibility of delays in implementing anything.

Buddy Bell

I think the two rain delays didn't help matters.

Gordon Patterson

I said I could but with rain delays and stuff, I told them their parents would get tired of that drive every week.

Imad Hamad

People are frustrated. The number of excessive delays can't be justified.

David Gordon

Historically, packaging has been one of the major delays for us in getting product out the door.

Leclerc Buffon

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Terry Riley

Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone.

Mike Richardson

We've advertised and had some excellent applicants. We'll be holding interviews from next Monday and hope to make an appointment by the end of next week.

Jack Dolan

We are looking to them. Oklahoma did an excellent job getting people paid promptly.

Trisha Williams

We started off really well. We had an excellent passing night. Toward the end of the game, we got a little lackadaisical. But overall I was really happy with the way the girls played.

William Shakespeare

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

Sven Goran

Wayne Rooney is an excellent footballer. I know he is young but when he is on the pitch he doesn't seem very young.

Baltasar Gracian

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

Adrian Griffin

We've got excellent scorers. Why do they need me to take shots away from them? I know what I need to do to help this team.

Dennis Martin

We have a solid team and we have high expectations. I can't tell you how hard the kids have worked, especially in the weight room. (Strength and conditioning coach) Rich Miller did an excellent job with their strength training and conditioning.

David Kemp

We've been able to do a fairly god job under the circumstances I think, in fact an excellent job under the circumstances of controlling those fires. That's just what you have to do is just be able to have the resources to get out and fight those fires.

Peter Jackson

We are, after all, at the centennial of the Olmstead park plan.

Dean Koontz

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Bernard Baruch

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

Tom Hamilton

We have no on-site parking for visitors, family, etc. This is a seniors building. Many of our visitors are seniors and have trouble walking 100 yards.

Joseph Spear

We want people to still be discovering new things about this park in season two,

Aziz Ansari

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

Walt Dabney

The reality is parks are in serious trouble. Unless you own your own ranch, the parks are what most Texans have to go to.

Lloyd George

When I m old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

Brian McKnight

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Kevin Jenkins

We take 'em from anywhere. But there are several institutions similar to us that play basketball.

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Noam Chomsky

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Deb Caletti

It's shocking the things we call love.

Arturs Irbe

When we got the lead, it was a surprise for the American team.

Dede Miller

We'll see. There are still a lot of other issues. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if she did.

Charlton Heston

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Meredith Patton

We're going to come out and surprise a lot of people. We're a young team, but we never give up.

Carnie Wilson

I can be a lady - surprise!

Floyd Reese

We won't exercise. You can write that if you want, though I don't think it will be a surprise to anybody.

Elie Wiesel

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Jerry Sloan

I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.

Daniel Borochoff

If it's worth that much, why aren't they getting the value?

Jeff Bowden

If it wasn't worth it, I wouldn't be here.

Sean Sommeran

I think it's worth it. These days, it's a war.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Susan Smith

If we have enough people, it will be worth it.

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

Alice Hoffman

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

Charles de Gaulle

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Charles de Lint

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.