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character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
emphasize players
We want our players to be scholar-athletes. We emphasize that all year. Shane Voss
emphasize middle
We're going to go back and look at all of this after-action, when we have time, but I've got to emphasize something: We are still in the middle of an emergency. Michael Chertoff
emphasize groove knew points strong totally
We knew we wanted to take the strong points of our groove and emphasize them as well, and we knew we wanted to just totally experiment. John Otto
emphasize screen
On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable. Tom Holland
emphasize games inside outside seen strong teams
We've seen teams with strong inside games, and we've seen teams with strong outside games. They have both, and we haven't seen that, so we can't emphasize anywhere.
emphasized minister negotiate prime victory
The prime minister emphasized that it makes little sense to negotiate a victory that we've already won.
emphasize force speed switched
We did what we had to do to force the tempo. We used a full-court press, and we switched defenses. Without Tracey, we're not as big as we were, so we have to emphasize our speed right now.
emphasize focus grocery help importance learning lemonade money order potential saving store time using
Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people. Bill Rancic
emphasized hard inability passing syndrome time
Right now, it's the old shoot-not-to-miss syndrome and passing up shots. We've emphasized that you don't pass up shots; if you miss, you miss. We've had a hard time scoring, but it's never been because of our inability to make a shot.
finals parting
All partings foreshadow the great final one.
finals records world
I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working. David Rudisha
finally pleased restore schedule
We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.
final
We are awaiting final confirmation from the American side, Sergey Lavrov
final rush
We're not going to rush into anything that has final on it.
final indication itself moment process production provide substance wrong
We have no indication at the moment that anything went wrong during the production of the agent. Only an examination of the production process and the substance itself which was injected will provide final certainty.
final mention talk whenever
Whenever we talk about the Final Four, you have to mention us making it to the Final Four. This is history.
finally game learns
When he finally learns to exhale, and let the game come to him. Carlos Beltran
finals half minute winning
We were a minute and a half away from the Finals -- big deal, ... It's about winning a championship. Pat Riley
point woods
The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,
point stop
The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.
point
The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.
point
The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.
point
The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs. Livan Hernandez
point reach
The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions. Jan Egeland
point succeeded
We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.
point thinks
We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point. Tom Renney
point state
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel. Michael Ondaatje
running men roots
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
running vices common
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
running moving views
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.
running men hands
Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.
running eye two
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
running pain boys
I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.
running church-bells religion
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. Charles Studd
running europe usa
My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period. Charles Stross
running wall real
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
trying sometimes failing
Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
trying want scripture
Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original Charles Spurgeon
trying littles reason-why
The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.
trying world term
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Alan Watts
trying world
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
trying way hurrying
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
trying rooms natural
That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off. Alan Parsons
trying entertainment television
I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment. Alan Moore
trying acting together
Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion. Alan Arkin