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?

Carlos Castaneda

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

Jane Fonda

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Desmond Tutu

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

Billy Graham

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

Ellen G. White

All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

Hannah More

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

Joel Osteen

Our words set the direction for our lives.

J. K. Rowling

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

Plautus

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

Alexander Pushkin

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

Ernst Toller

At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

Madeleine L'Engle

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

Joyce Carol Oates

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

Paulo Coelho

We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

Leo Tolstoy

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.