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| But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. |
Charles Dickens |
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| There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart. |
Charles Dickens |
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| In love of home, the love of country has its rise. |
Charles Dickens |
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| I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it. |
Charles Dickens |
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| By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. |
Charles Dickens |
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| I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time... |
Charles Dickens |
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| ...it was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us |
Charles Dickens |
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| 'A merry Christmas, uncle God save you' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah' said Scrooge. 'Humbug' |
Charles Dickens |
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| No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. |
Charles Dickens |
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| 'Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should' |
Charles Dickens |
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| There is always something for which to be thankful. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Then Bob proposed 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all. |
Charles Dickens |
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| 'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.' |
Charles Dickens |
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| A loving heart is the truest wisdom. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. |
Charles Dickens |
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| It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. |
Charles Dickens |
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| It was a turkey He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax. |
Charles Dickens |
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| It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. |
Charles Dickens |
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| I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year. |
Charles Dickens |
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| I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. |
Charles Dickens |
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| We need never be ashamed of our tears. |
Charles Dickens |
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| It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. |
Charles Dickens |
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| With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. |
Charles Dickens |
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| Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.' |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| When you are right you cannot be too radical when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| ...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Eric Draven Little things use to mean so much to Shelley - I thought they were kind of trivial. Believe me, nothing is trivial. |
Crow, The |
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| Top Dollar Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy now that's fun |
Crow, The |
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| Eric Draven Jesus Christ Stop me if you heard this one Jesus Christ walks into a hotel. He hands the innkeeper three nails, and he asks... Can you put me up for the night |
Crow, The |
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| Eric Draven It can't rain all the time. |
Crow, The |
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| Eric Draven Suddenly their came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. You heard me rapping, right |
Crow, The |
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| Eric Draven It's not a good day to be a bad guy. |
Crow, The |
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| Sarah If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever. |
Crow, The |
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| T-Bird You know, Lake Eerie actually caught on fire once from all the crap floating around in it. I wish I could've seen that. |
Crow, The |
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| Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly. |
U. Peter |
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| Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. |
Smiley Blanton |
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| A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. |
Smiley Blanton |
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| The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. |
Smiley Blanton |
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| It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly. |
Smiley Blanton |
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