Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Charles Dickens

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

Charles Dickens

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

Charles Dickens

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.

Charles Dickens

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

Charles Dickens

"It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing uses me to it. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel."

Charles Dickens

So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.

Charles Studd

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Eartha Kitt

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Agnes de Mille

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

Michael Shermer

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Craig Davis

What this is about, this is isn't about pro sports, this is about greed. This is about money, power and arrogance.

Charlie Pierce

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

Jade Johnson

For me it isn't about the money or the greed, it's always been about the medals.

Cyril Neville

Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and greed murdered New Orleans,

Josh Bernoff

The right price has nothing to do with greed. It has to do with demand.

Charles Godfrey Leland

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Byron Katie

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Callan McAuliffe

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Thomas Fuller

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Benjamin Disraeli

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

bell hooks

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

E. O. Wilson

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

Anne Bancroft

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A chaste generation would restore Paradise.