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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.
selfishness luxurious
Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.] Juvenal
selfishness never-forget forget
Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins. Bill Walton
selfishness degrees bigs
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. Aristotle
selfishness
Selfishness has never been admired.
selfishness incentives laziness
Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity. Ludwig von Mises
selfishness satanism form
Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness. Anton LaVey
selfishness today serious
Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today Dalai Lama
selfishness continuity day-to-day
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me. Albert Camus
selfishness sin bases
The basis of all sin is selfishness. David O. McKay
heroic life poems writers-and-writing
Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem. John Milton
heroic hours trumpets
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. Benjamin Cardozo
heroic
I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger. Nicholas Winton
heroic movies reason whereas
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. Oscar Isaac
heroic languages word
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. Eugene Debs
heroic accommodations situation
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic. Alan Furst
heroic admire englishmen
Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure Anne Fadiman
heroic reaching struggle
reaching the end of a long and heroic struggle. Nelson Mandela
heroic massive
This was such a massive catastrophe. I don't know that anything could have been done differently. We had a lot of heroic people. John Walsh