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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. Carlos Fuentes
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. C. S. Lewis
disappear-completely cloning royalty
Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely. Douglas Coupland
prejudice injustice blinded
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see. Bram Fischer
prejudice littles vexation
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. Jane Austen
prejudice determined matrimony
I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth] Jane Austen
prejudice world inconsistency
The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it. Jane Austen
prejudice opinion manners
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me. Jane Austen
prejudice worthy please
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. Jane Austen
prejudice moments pride-and-prejudice-book
Till this moment I never knew myself. Jane Austen
prejudice break one-thing
One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go. Cher
prejudice truth-is weak
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice. Charlotte Lennox