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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.
profound mind observation
That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind. Charles Caleb Colton
profound
If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out. David Kim
profound insight conclusion
The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion. Janna Levin
profound perfect inheritance
I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other. Edmund Burke
profound important trying
The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless. Eliezer Yudkowsky
profound tvs influence
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives. Barbara Kruger
profound metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts. Catherynne M. Valente
profound saying utterly
What he was saying was utterly profound in some regards. Steve Crump
profound important acting
Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way. Blythe Danner
sublime enchanting charm
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
sublime infinity source
One source of the sublime is infinity.
sublime realization world
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics. Bayard Taylor
sublime essentials thieves
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. Denis Diderot
sublime useless doe
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
sublime sorrow christianity
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
sublime use way
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word. Bodhidharma
sublime events wonderful
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. Benjamin Disraeli
sublime
From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step. Napoleon Bonaparte