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Quotes About Charles

Her recovery was sometimes referred to as "a miracle," more miraculous than mine, but I don't believe in miracles, just the force of compassion, which under certain circumstances can bring the dead to life.
~ Charles Baxter
Fear and wonder rendered him powerless. An occurrence like this, in a place assigned to devotion, was adapted to intimidate the stoutest heart.
~ Charles Brockden Brown
The mention of the word dispensationalism usually evokes an immediate reaction.
~ Charles C. Ryrie
A dispensation is a distinguishable economy in the outworking of God's purpose. If
~ Charles C. Ryrie
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.
~ Charles Churchill
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
~ Charles Colson
Article F: Alternobaric Vertigo and Eustachian Tube Dysfunction. Charles D. Bluestone, MD; J. Douglas Swarts, PhD; Joseph M. Furman, MD, PhD; Robert F. Yellon, MD. Case Report: Persistent Alternobaric Vertigo at Ground Level due to Chronic Toynbee phenomenon. Laryngoscope 2012;122(4):868–72. The
~ Charles D. Bluestone
NON His greatest service to the UK on their application to join the EEC.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.
~ Charles de Gaulle
The Wall Pass passes the stone. He would pass the stone hearts. (Le Passe Muraille passe la pierre. Il passerait les coeurs de pierre)
~ Charles de Leusse
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
~ Charles de Secondat
A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!
~ Charles Dickens
"Did you ever taste beer?" "I had a sip of it once," said the small servant. "Here's a state of things!" cried Mr. Swiveller…. "She never tasted it—it can't be tasted in a sip!"
~ Charles Dickens
The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my head.
~ Charles Dickens
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
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
~ Charles Dickens
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times .)
~ Charles Dickens
Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before!
~ Charles Dickens
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
~ Charles Dickens
Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin)
~ Charles Dickens
Couldn't something temporary be done with a teapot?
~ Charles Dickens
A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars at all?
~ Charles Dickens
Joe went all the way home with his mouth wide open, to rinse the rum out with as much air as possible.
~ Charles Dickens
Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought,
~ Charles Dickens