![[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-first-transactions-of-a-nation-like-those-of-an-individual-upon-his-first.jpg)
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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.
firsts film amazing-experiences
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right. Carol Kane
firsts ancient goddess
At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me. Carol P. Christ
firsts elements investment
We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
firsts speak goodness
Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.
firsts events week
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. Agnes Smedley
firsts counseling offense
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling. Alan Thicke
firsts way thirds
First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere. Alan Shearer
firsts tvs program
Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom. Alan King
firsts language programming
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. Alan Kay
individual express-yourself circumstances
Circumstances beyond my individual control. Charles Dickens
individual-effort achievement done
The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing. Charles Spurgeon
individual trying work
We know how important this is to the individual and we're trying to work with them. Jon Allen
individuality painting poet
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. Diane Wakoski
individual enjoyment incapable
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. Alan Watts
individual mass torts
Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right. Boris Vian
individual be-confident offers
Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer. Ashley Jensen
individuality should refinement
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever. Ashley Montagu
individuality world doe
Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself. Carl Jung