Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Edna O'Brien

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Daniel Goleman

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

Elie Wiesel

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Alice Sebold

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

Curtis LeMay

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

Curtis Sittenfeld

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

Charles Dickens

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

Demi Moore

You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.

Elizabeth Edwards

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

Ahmet Ertegun

It is a great life, this life of music,

Bruce Lee

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

Andrew Vachss

If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Live it well and this life can be grand.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.

Henrik Ibsen

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.