Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Charles Dickens

"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

Charles Dickens

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

Charles Dickens

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Charles Dickens

I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.

Charles Dickens

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

Bob Rae

I hear [my Twitter followers] say, you know, 'Bob Rae, you're an asshole'. [...] I'm working my way and trying to represent the people and speaking in Question Period and here we have vox populi, the thoughtful man on the street, 'you are an asshole!'. Thank you very much. I read it on my Twitter and I get up and ask a question.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Al Gore

Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

Bob Ehrlich

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

Bono

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Edward G. Robinson

Nothing human is foreign to us

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Leroy Hood

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Eric Lander

The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.

Paul Wolfowitz

This is a man who takes pride and pleasure in having killed thousands of innocent humans beings. And it confirms everything we've known about him already, ... This Week.

Lee Tien

This may be appropriate for cattle, pets or packages, but for humans it is a very different issue.

Yoav Gilad

The big question is why are humans so different?

Rita Ora

Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.