Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Alan Watts

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

Alan Watts

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Alan Rickman

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

Dave Chappelle

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Carl Sagan

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Bryan Singer

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Carl Icahn

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.

Bobby Cannavale

I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.

Carolina Herrera

When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I don't eat carbs after 17h00 and I drink skimmed milk.

Bob Dylan

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

Abdu'l Baha

If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

Danny Garcia

Milk Duds. It doesn't' bother me that it gets stuck in my teeth or anything.

Dylan McDermott

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

E. B. White

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

Andy Kindler

Milk should be refrigerated even before opening.

Gayle Forman

These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.