Dickensian Season Quotes & Sayings

We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart. — Luanne Rice

Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture. Further, many of our members have long used one or two other Study Bibles, and it is important that Christians not be tied too tightly to only one option, however good it may be. — D. A. Carson

Ji Wenzi always thought thrice before acting. Hearing this the Master said, "Twice is enough. — Confucius

Is everything normal now?"
"Well he hasn't got religious mania, and he isn't running around in a circle
spouting Gilbert and Sullivan, so I suppose he's normal." (45) — Isaac Asimov

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [ ... ] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good. — Paulo Coelho

For you must know, my dear ones, that each of us is undoubtedly guilty on behalf of all and for all on earth, not only because of the common guilt of the world, but personally, each one of us, for all people and for each person on this earth. This knowledge is the crown of the monk's path, and of every man's path on earth. For monks are not a different sort of men, but only such as all men on earth ought also to be. Only then will our hearts be moved to a love that is infinite, universal, and that knows no satiety. Then each of us will be able to gain the whole world by love and wash away the world's sins with his tears ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside. — Mike Svob

It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place. — Clive James

A guy can't be friends with a woman he's actively attracted to. Not really. Because at some point his dick will take over. It'll walk like him and talk like him, but - like one of the poor schmucks infected by those freaky face-sucking things in Alien - it won't be him. And from that point on, every move, every gesture will be geared toward accomplishing the dick's goal. Which sure as shit won't have anything to do with friendship. — Emma Chase

Many a time, you may not even have to speak, however difficult the situation; your goatee speaks for you. — Pawan Mishra

'Garbage Time' was the name I came up with. Midnight was my decision. Were they the right decisions? I dunno. — Katie Nolan

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone. — John Dingell

I did deranged quite well, when the occasion called for it. — Ilona Andrews

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame. — James Beattie