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people literature may
Charles Dickens May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
people words-of-wisdom facts
Charles Dickens Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
people coats holiness
Charles Dickens Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
people may medical
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.
people solitude multitudes
Charles Dickens A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
Charles Dickens My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
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.
people words-of-wisdom want
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.
want please workhouses
Charles Dickens Please, sir, I want some more.
want faces misery
Charles Dickens I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
want waste firsts
Charles Spurgeon Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
want revival reverence
Charles Spurgeon If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
want walks
Alanis Morissette I want to walk through life.
want wake-up illusion
Alan Watts If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.
want doe angle
Alan Rickman I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
want making-money
Alan Greenspan Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
want painting feels
Alan Bean I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
firsts sun start-the-day
Charles Dickens The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
firsts profession
Charles Caleb Colton A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
firsts three novel
Charles Stross I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.
firsts christ salvation
Charles Spurgeon The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
firsts done christ
Charles Spurgeon Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.
firsts language consciousness
Alan Moore Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
firsts chaos authority
Alan Moore Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
firsts film made
Al Pacino I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
firsts shy language
Al Pacino My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.