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character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
explain people
It's impossible to explain to people who you are in a five-minute interview on TV. Ludivine Sagnier
explained players rules
We've all had explained as to what is going to be called. Players were on the rules committee, so we all have to adjust. Tom Fitzgerald
explain people policies succeed values war
We're in a war on terror. We are still at war. And to succeed in this war, we must effectively explain our policies and fundamental values to people around the world, Karen Hughes
explains lyrics sets track
I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood. Nayvadius Cash
explains
Years at sea probably explains why I'm single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices.
explained feet knock square
We explained to all of them they were going to have to get their feet set, square their shoulders, be fundamental and knock three's down.
explain fragile wish
We're just fragile right now. Wish I could explain why. Brad Richards
explained extent imply massive number physics possible predict saying string universes
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything. Lawrence M. Krauss
explain though understand
I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense. Kevin McDonald
games two lawyer
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.
games words-of-wisdom delight
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
games planning designer
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. Charles Stross
games play self
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts
games fire giving
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.
games boards vendetta
They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals. Alan Green
games gambling casinos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez
games gambling cards
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
groups camps
I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp. Akshay Kumar
groups care littles
In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward. David Shields
group hard
The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around. Tom Bradley
groups local seeing shift sponsors state structured supported
We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,
group mean medical procedure
We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.
groups key names solid stocks
There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.
group guys hard line picket regular stopped time
We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there, Mike McCarthy
group hard helping kids listened miss quite
We still miss Todd, especially. He had something the kids really listened to. This year's group (of seniors), they're working hard at that but they're just not quite there yet, not with as many young kids as we have now. Aaron's really helping in that regard.
group knew needed oriented team
We started off a little up and down. But then things started to come together. This group is really team oriented and they knew what they needed to do.
speaks-out abuse excess
We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right. Camille Paglia
speaks tongue truth
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth
speaks-out willing direct
I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out. Bev Perdue
speaks-out water long
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot! August Strindberg
speaks-out rights people
And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people. Dennis Kucinich
speaks-out political secret
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master. Chanakya
speaks-out careers voice
It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers. Chaka Khan
speaks-out leader want
I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want. Ban Ki-moon
speaks-out opposites goal
Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in. Arianna Huffington
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.