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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.
ideas mirrors want
I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself. Carol Vorderman
ideas people wrong-ideas
Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.
ideas new-orleans rebuilding
Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman? Carlos Mencia
ideas long people
People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
ideas perspective important
It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.
ideas political independence
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
ideas tables calculations
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!
ideas giving appetite
You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.
ideas savages would-be
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
want feels loses
I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it. Carol Leifer
want firsts staying-single
I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.
want our-family
When you're close to your family, you want to be close to them. Carlos Beltran
want company turns
When you want to turn around a company, you want to make sure that the solution is coming from inside.
want our-society deceiving
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
want
I just want to become a great leadoff hitter. Carl Crawford
want slave utility
Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.
want quiet peace-and-quiet
I just want to live in peace and quiet. Agnetha Faltskog
want nostalgia sometimes
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back. Agnes Varda