Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

Charles Dickens

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Charles Caleb Colton

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

Charles Caleb Colton

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Charles Caleb Colton

Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.

Charles Caleb Colton

Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.

Charles Dickens

You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

Charles Dickens

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

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.

David Morales

Why did you let us take out the referendum then? It should have been blocked, ... I spent a lot of time on these petitions. You can't give out paperwork that you can't accept.

Jackie Smith

We have not received any paperwork on that from them.

Ron Steele

All the paperwork has been submitted... we are waiting.

Gabrielle Zevin

I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.

Tim Gray

We have 30 to 40 painters, and the paperwork was just crazy,

Craig Beintema

Is there a way we can have people go through more quickly. Is there more paperwork needed? Can we speed up the process. That's what I want to know. And I want to know how the volunteers are working with us.

Gustav Mahler

Life's been nothing but paperwork.

J. J. Johnson

We've always been told that there's nothing we can do. We're told that the patients are the ones who need to complain.

Rick Colby

Ultimately, I think the patients need to step up on this issue.

David Goldberg

Most patients who have been treated by a rental laser don't know it until it actually happens.

David Adamson

There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos.

Billy Carter

We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded.

Michael Moore

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

Sandra Sanchez

She spreads her love; the patients really respond to her.

John Ross

The patients that are now in the waiting room and the ones that are in ambulance stretchers can't come into their departments because there's actually no place to put them.

Chris Hall

We plan to send 25 patients a week by the end of this year.

John Heywood

Feed by measure, and defy the physician.

Charles Lamb

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

Benjamin Franklin

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

Daniel D. Palmer

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Ambrose Bierce

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Daniel Nathans

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Oliver Cromwell

Nature can do more than physicians

Epictetus

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

Dennis McBride

We are trying to get referrals from the physicians themselves,

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Dan Grunfeld

We are just seeing more and more of it.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.

Kimberley Nixon

I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

Nomar Garciaparra

I've got a stack of them. I'm trying to get a feel for what I like and don't like.

Rainbow Rowell

That was the beauty in stacking up words--they got cheaper, the more you had of them.

Jim Schaus

We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Isaiah Tucker

We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Charles R. Swindoll

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

Dietric Slater

We thought we could win. We started executing, slowed it down, got on a little run. Then we couldn't stop them from scoring.

Todd France

I was trying to tackle Dante Hall, and that wasn't going to happen.

Ed Brucker

We were fundamentally sound, we tackled better and we had some big plays.

Ryan Clark

I look at him like, hmmm, I just tackled him.

Michelle Monaghan

As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Diana DeGarmo

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10...

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Ken Hitchcock

We didn't play well in Montreal, so this was a big win, ... Now, we're right there with everyone else (near the top of the standings at 5-2-1).

Rhona Martin

We didn't play well enough and didn't do enough to win. That's the top line.