Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

Benjamin Hoff

"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said."

Edward Everett Hale

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

It's not like us and I really don't know what happened. I have no words for it.

For Doug to say anything is remarkable, and for him to say that many words is very, very remarkable.

It's a nonevent. If you have to write 1,000 words on this, I feel for you.

It was surprisingly touching. It's more real than words on a page.

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

The words 'defense contractor' kind of worries me.

Abdullah Gul

The words attributed to me are not correct.

Lord Kelvin

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

Boris Becker

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

Aristotle

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Aristotle

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

Aristotle

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

Aristotle

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

Abraham Lincoln

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

Andrew Motion

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Stanley Crouch

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

Stanley Crouch

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.