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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.
destiny world today
Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale -- a daydream." "Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today. Charlotte Bronte
destiny your-destiny
Your will shall decide your destiny.
destiny choices our-actions
I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that. Richard G. Scott
destiny needed walking whether work
In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not. Trai Byers
destiny people soul
Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place. Brian Weiss
destiny
Destiny and history are untidy. Djuna Barnes
destiny life-is acknowledge
Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure. David Brooks
destiny choices taught
That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it. Darren Shan
destiny cards nudge
Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116
aphorism bite establish exact finger maybe relates routine simply ten time until
It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.' Neal Asher
aphorism capital chose dirty foreground greedy ideology man mankind money path precisely punishing sacred salvation searching shows societies society sorts suicide tainted true understand ways
The societies of the futures, always searching for salves, will be so greedy to have this capital which is the man, that they will find all sorts of dirty ways to religiously or culturally brutify him and even severely punishing him if he would chose suicide or the ideology that shows the true path of salvation of the mankind through itself. Precisely because they will understand that the Man is the World and the World is the Man! This aphorism will be the one that will be in the foreground on the backgrounds tainted by all these murders of the money of this society which will be the antechamber of the society of the Sacred Self. Sorin Cerin
aphorism danger small states trying
It's the danger of the aphorism that it states too much in trying to be small
aphorism
In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth. Mason Cooley
aphorism angle structure
Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.
aphorism pins let-me
The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.
aphorism slippery
The aphorism is a slippery plaything.
aphorism genuine fixed
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience. F. H. Bradley
aphorism midst known
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. Emile M. Cioran