Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Charles Dickens

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

Charles Dickens

The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

Charles Dickens

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

Charles Dickens

It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

Charles Dickens

The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.

Charles Dickens

The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep...

John Paul Stevens

Our love cannot be measured, it just is.

John the Apostle

Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

John Stott

God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.

Michael Ondaatje

I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love

Marianne Williamson

We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.

Patti Smith

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

Kathryn Schulz

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

Katherine Mansfield

The whole world shall be ours because of our love.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

Thomas Huxley

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth

Tiger Woods

I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated.

Jupiter Hammon

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

Jupiter Hammon

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Lee Ryan

I haven't been unfaithful, well only when I was younger!