Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

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.

Dominic Raiola

We're not going to put more emphasis on it now. We should be doing that already.

Joan Bonvicini

When we got here at shoot-around today, I felt good and I knew they felt good. I think the key thing was, we didn't put the emphasis on Stanford. We put the emphasis on us and playing our butts off and having fun.

David Collins

Unfortunately it looks like another hurricane is ready to go through Florida over the week-end. I think there's going to be another emphasis to generate donations.

Kevin McGuff

We're similar defensively. They place more of a heavy emphasis on the (3-point shot), but we are probably quicker and more athletic.

Ken Watanabe

I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.

Kevin Bardsley

We really kind of put a lot of emphasis on the schools -- and that's when Brennan went missing,

David Liebersbach

Losing this natural hazards emphasis for FEMA is getting to be quite a concern.

Romeo Travis

Last year, we got pounded on the boards. That was the emphasis from everybody on this team, from top to bottom.

Brad Hopkins

So many people put so much emphasis on the Pittsburgh game,

Joe Cheshire

Let's look at some facts. You know, false accusations are made by people all the time for all different types of reasons.

Theodore Steinberg

Levees are a double-edged sword; they give people a false sense of security.

Richard Feigen

She isn't hiding in her bunker, and she isn't going out in some sort of false exuberance,

Paul Hefner

This rain tends to give you a false sense of security.

Sathya Baba

Love knows no fear and so love needs no falsehood to support it.

quran quran

So leave them plunging into false discourses and sporting until they meet their day which they are threatened with.

Tom Coughlin

The poise in the noise, the false starts we had...That's ridiculous,

Christine Pelosi

To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.

Ann Hood

Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work.

Michele Patenaude

We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our jobs and serve our students better.

Lisa Vidal

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.

Richard Boucher

We find it very interesting and useful to talk to somebody with firsthand experience. Obviously, it helps our thinking.

Rory Bremner

I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

Fernando Torres

Let's hope what we've done this week helps us to get something positive in our next games.

Justin Huber

Levi's been more of the outside guy; I'm more of the inside game. That helps us out a lot. It helps keep each of us rested and ready to go.

Thomas Mars

I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.

Tom Rath

Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

Masaaki Higashida

Signs that the U.S. stock scene is improving really helps lift spirits at home.

Alastair Reynolds

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

David Lynch

I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.

Craig Barr

I think we had 13 or 14 snaps in the first half. For the game, they had 62 snaps and we had 33.

Sean Wade

We can't play 90 snaps and think we're going to be good. Somebody's going to get fatigued sooner or later.

Rafael Palmeiro

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.

Mats Sundin

We were in disarray for awhile, squeezing our sticks and thinking too much, but we snapped out of it.

Mark Fenton

That's the only quarterback that's ever taken snaps from me in a game, at least consistently.

Gerhard Richter

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

Rudy Gay

Every person has their lulls. But I think I snapped out of my lulls and started to get better.