Arrangements Quote by Charles Dickens

“How'd you like a temporary job in our shipping room?" Mr. Shanahan asked, his eyes suddenly watchful. For an instant Mr. Newman succeeded in…

— Anonymous

“He was "distinguished" to the tips of his polished nails, and there was not a movement of his fine perpendicular person that was not…

— Henry James

“but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility, he feared…

— Jane Austen

“He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the…

— Jane Austen

He who has never hoped can never despair

— George Bernard Shaw

“He saw things he had no words for.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“He entered a confectioner's shop to rest, once. He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and no one;…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“he never allowed himself to think about unpleasant things, which answered very well, and could be supported in times of really inescapable stress by…

— Georgette Heyer

“He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the…

— Alain de Botton

“Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order—never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful,…

— Rudyard Kipling

“What made him most anxious, he told me, was not the big questions—the mercilessness of fate, the possibility of heaven. He was too exhausted,…

— Wally Lamb