![[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.](/assets/img/quote-photos/geology-may-be-looked-upon-as-the-history-of-the-earths-changes-during-prepara.jpg)
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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.
epic inhabit milieu natural
The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling. Terry Hayes
epic historical bigs
I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it... Cary Fukunaga
epic philosopher poet
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. Charles Baudelaire
epic valleys four
I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic! Ashley Madekwe
epic excited frighten
Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me. Kenneth Branagh
epic fan follows oldest says
The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly. Kate Reardon
epic order shoes
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro. Dean Koontz
epic historical want
I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. Eli Roth
epic nature popular prepared
'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is. Kevin McKidd
preparation way exclusion
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. Jane Welsh Carlyle
preparation rehearsal worship
The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender. Aiden Wilson Tozer
preparation important ingredients
Most cooks would not, for example, prepare an important, elaborate, and difficult dish on the back-burner. Neither should we relegate the cultivation and preparation of happiness for a position where it is both hard to reach and difficult to infuse with new ingredients. Gina Barreca
preparation failing invest-in-yourself
Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business. Mark Cuban
preparation unexpected
Expect the unexpected. Bear Bryant
preparation performances productivity
Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation Brian Tracy
preparation fields foundation
The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.
preparation
There’s no preparation for poetry. Charles Simic
preparation casting emptiness
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up. Charles Spurgeon