#ge

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#another #be brave #brave #electric #encourages

My sister, I have a sister who's 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one. ↗

— Selma Blair

#girl #i #older #outrageous #party

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated. ↗

— Selma Blair

#being #bombshell #haven #i #lead

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#credit #gets #guarantee #pay #person

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#changes #cradle #easy #every #every time

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. ↗

— Tony Blair

#children #contemplate #entire #entire lives #first

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. ↗

— Tony Blair

#am #believes #beset #between #britain

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#arrangement #attire #great #great men #seldom

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#fancy #judge #lord #spell #taste

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#baby #born #complete #contend #degeneration