Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

Charles Dickens

"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

Charles Dickens

"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

Charles Caleb Colton

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

Charles Caleb Colton

When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.

Charles Caleb Colton

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Charles Caleb Colton

Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.

Charles Caleb Colton

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

Charles Caleb Colton

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Charles Dickens

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

Charles Dickens

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

Charles Caleb Colton

The smiling daughter of the storm.

Charles Dickens

It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he could not disown clung to this obscure stranger, and he sitting by. Not that he cared to whom his daughter turned, or from whom turned away. The swift sharp agony struck through him, as he thought of what his son might do.

Charles Stuart Calverley

The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

Alan Moore

And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter… Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold… that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle.

Alan Jay Lerner

For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.

Alan Jackson

After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.

Alan Bradley

It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Kathy Deepe

There is a part for everyone. And if they don't want a speaking part, they can be on the set crew.

Jim Hightower

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

George Muller

In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.

Itula Mili

Sometimes, when we're together, we start just speaking pidgin and stuff like that and that's good, too.

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Yoko Ono

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

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.

M. Thompson

We struggled with that, ... made all the sense in the world.

Frank Robinson

We struggled through it, ... Tomorrow, I'm back in the bullpen.

Peter Zoppi

We struggled offensively. We didn't make enough contact. We couldn't deliver.

Bill Beasley

She hadn't thrown all year, so she struggled a bit.

Stephen Merchant

Generally, I'm terrified of shopping. I like the idea of being well-dressed, but I've always struggled to get anything that fits. I envy those that go into old vintage shops.

Jeff Knoy

She struggled early; I think she had two or three turnovers right off the bat. I yanked her tail out and said, 'Hey, you're going to have to play better if we're going to be successful.' And it usually rotates through her and Helen on how well we're going to play.

Andrea Gaston

She's one of our top players, but she's struggled all semester.

Charles Rosser

I always thought we shouldn't have been in 4A in the first place. In '99, we skipped from 2A to 4A. We struggled in 4A for a while. I feel like now we are right where we belong.

Ned Yost

We had struggled to that point. We were going down in order, boom, boom, boom.