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?

Ann Brashares

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.

Orson Welles

What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other

Hank Azaria

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

Rachel Cohn

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.

Lillian Hellman

You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.

Mitch Albom

Something is always happening somewhere.

Sri Aurobindo

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

Dean Koontz

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

Adam McKay

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

Joshua Harris

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.

Laurence Gonzales

The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.

Sarah Palin

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

Sue Monk Kidd

The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.