A Quote by Charles Dickens

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens
English - Novelist
February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don’t want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.

Susane Colasanti

Not a single disabled veteran in America should be forced to live under the weight of student debt, and they shouldn't have to file paperwork or cut through red tape to get the relief they earned through their sacrifices for this country.

Conor Lamb

What I really like about 'Red Band Society' is how real it is, and the experiences that they are going through are experiences that everyone is bound to go through at one point or another in their lives.

Ciara Bravo

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

Elon Musk

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

Malala Yousafzai

German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003

Anne Lamott

And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise. and knowledgeable people are sad, they are bound to be sad because all their knowledge is borrowed. There can be no song in it.

Rajneesh

People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.

Ai Yazawa

A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.

E. Nesbit

Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

Ramakrishna

You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita.

Swami Vivekananda

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

Charles Studd

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

Agatha Christie

It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it.

Glenn Gould

You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

Frederick Lenz

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