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character
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
character long shapes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
character civilization games
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
character warrior men
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
character differences faces
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
character clinton
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
character simple profound
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
character eye vegetables
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
character play plot
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
wish gum enough
By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!
wish invisible
And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.
wish leisure wit
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
wish use type
I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing Alan Ladd
wish looks too-much
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it. Djuna Barnes
wish language british
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. Diane Wakoski
wish world back-again
Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again David Guetta
wish genius taste
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. Jane Austen
wish shy natural
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars
endurance none pass physical volunteers
There ain't none of us that can pass the physical or the exam, well we could pass the exam, I'm just saying, it's endurance, it's like an endurance test, we're volunteers we're all out of shape. Larry Harris
endurance ruins depravity
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
endurance crowds inequality
You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too. Janet Jackson
endurance bears dare
More can I bear than you dare execute. William Shakespeare
endurance fading limits
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen. Blaise Pascal
endurance jim owe
We're going to endure, I guess. I think we owe that to Jim to be there.
endurance firsts events
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event. Bliss Carman
endurance great knew lots mound taking
She (Ronk) had lots of endurance tonight. I think she's a great leader. I think she knew she was going to get it done. There was no way I was taking her off the mound tonight.
endurance indecision form
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision. Elizabeth Bibesco