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Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.


Charles Dickens

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JEN CAMPBELL I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
JO WALTON And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the gl...
CHARLES DICKENS Was it Charles Dickens who said it was the best of times and the worst of times? That's how I feel. ...
JEFF GORDON We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And ...
CHARLES DICKENS Please, sir, I want some more.
CHARLES DICKENS Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!
CHARLES DICKENS So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to ...
CHARLES DICKENS There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or m...
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ART MALIK The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhyt...
CHARLES DICKENS (from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens)

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NICK HORNBY They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtors' ...
CORT JENSEN They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtor's ...
CORT JENSEN This summer is going to be really crazy with changes and shifts all over the place.
BILL BADGER Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. I...
JOHN BOYNE Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, ...
CHARLES DICKENS He even played for them. I was interested in him from when I was young so it was very exciting. Char...
ALEXEI SMERTIN Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i...
ROBERT WINSTON She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
CHARLES DICKENS But what were even gold and silver, precious stones and clockwork, to the bookshops, whence a pleasa...
CHARLES DICKENS Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
CHARLES DICKENS I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.
DAVID MARKSON I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.'...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
JOHN BANVILLE Sex changes and shifts throughout our lives, depending on our age and depending on what we’re goin...
LAURA BERMAN Sex changes and shifts throughout our lives, depending on our age and depending on what we're going ...
LAURA BERMAN We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whet...
STEVEN JOHNSON I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, a...
JAIME PRESSLY All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
JULIE ANDREWS Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Pathological changes have taken place on large areas of both lungs. Two doctors and three nurses are...
BEIJING NEWS A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times b...
G.K. CHESTERTON Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY School is not preparation for life, but school is life
JOHN DEWEY Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Ar...
MAYA ANGELOU [Charles] Nodier’s later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste...
PETER PARTNER I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and...
BEN OKRI All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
JULIE ANDREWS Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of ...
KEVIN MICHEL Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY Snowden said carefully, 'I've been unable to get in touch with the person I thought might know about...
JOSH LANYON Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become r...
PAUL VALéRY A widening U.S. current-account is always unfavorable for the dollar. That won't be a big issue whil...
YUJI KAMEOKA Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets re...
ELIYAHU GOLDRATT (On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has i...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes ...
LUPE FIASCO People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
BOBBY KNIGHT When Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," I believe he must ...
SEX AND THE CITY I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.
JOHNNIE COCHRAN We're not seeing important national trends like the shrinking of crack markets in the 1990s, ... The...
ALFRED BLUMSTEIN That's what happens at this level. You get momentum shifts, and the game changes. Once they got down...
MICHAEL GOODLING Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.
DONNY DEUTSCH The intent was to scare the dickens out of the folks and make (the amendments) look as bad as possib...
BUCK WOOD I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.
JOHNNIE COCHRAN Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
W.B. YEATS Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Life is a long preparation for something that never happens
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anyth...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER The solution is to stay connected and not to feel so guilty and bad. Try not to get rundown when the...
GORDON SAUER A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
ELBERT GREEN HUBBARD Making changes and shifts to the greater whole, begins with our own personal shifts. Holding onto fe...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN When population shifts - brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school ...
GWEN IFILL good luck’ follows careful preparation; ‘bad luck’ comes from sloppiness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can...
FRANK BLACK There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
JULES RENARD There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
THOMAS CARLYLE The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl...
PAUL BLOOM Most of these early changes probably don't go anywhere. But we are looking for ways to differentiate...
DR. JOEL LEVINE There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth an...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
JANE AUSTEN We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.
JOHN KEEGAN Vogliamo ora congedarci dal nostro vecchio amico in uno di quei rari momenti di felicità perfetta, ...
CHARLES DICKENS Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed...
LEWIS MUMFORD Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living.
JAMIE FOXX Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
JAMIE FOXX There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue...
CHARLOTTE BUNCH I don't know a better preparation for life than love of poetry and a good digestion
ZONA GALE In life there are many thing's you may not like or want but is necessary for stability and sustainab...
ANONYMOUSE The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
THOMAS HUXLEY The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushi...
SHANA ALEXANDER For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal fo...
VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH If there are any aberrations in value, sudden changes in stocks, you can take advantage of that and ...
WILLIAM HUMMER I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are large...
J. G. BALLARD When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because ...
MATTHEW PEARL Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life ...
ARISTOTLE In the area of diet, we are only asking for fairly modest shifts,
WALTER WILLETT I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
ZONA GALE No sense makes sense.” Charles Manson
VINCENT BUGLIOSI In the southeast, fish population and (bottom-dweller) changes are happening in the context of a com...
JAMES OVERLAND In the southeast, fish population and bottom-dweller changes are happening in the context of a compl...
JAMES OVERLAND A human heart is like a house: Every time you act evilly, a brick is removed, until it crumbles down...
CHRISTOPHER FEBVRE The greatest book about giving that I've ever read is 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, about ...
TED TURNER There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political i...
CHARLOTTE BUNCH I was prepared for [being waived]. You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN RULE I was prepared for (being waived). You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN RULE I was prepared for [being waived]. You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN HOUSTON RULE I was prepared for (being waived). You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN HOUSTON RULE I don't know whether I would have gotten past Charles if he hadn't had the problems. I feel bad for ...
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CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
CHARLES DICKENS Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly.
CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS