Charles Dickens Quotes

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future.

Clinton's major problem, and the two aren't separable really because there is hope in the country, the hope - - optimism has slipped dramatically, make no mistake about every measurement shows that. But the hope is still there. Hope is with him. People want change. They see him as the best chance for change.

Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

It takes a lot to still believe in people.

I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemmed the suspicion that people's opinions weren't really their own. "Who's paying you?" was a retort that might follow any bout of enthusiasm, along with laughter - who would let themselves be bought?

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.