#times

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#dignity #even #holiness #imagine #more

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#excess #only #sometimes #vices #virtues

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes. ↗

— James Dickey

#depending #even #feel #fire #flash

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#hard #hard times #muscles #need #oppression

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#change #force #greatest #i #must

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#as far as #far #go #hypothesis #more

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread

I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#always #am #been #coming #compliments

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#away #children #going #home #keeps

We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that. ↗

— David Dinkins

#al #always #blamed #counseled #gets