Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Carlos Fuentes

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

Carlos Fuentes

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 Castaneda

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.

Carl Barks

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Carl Bernstein

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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.

C. S. Lewis

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

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.

Clarice Lispector

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

Robert Hickey

Most people either fell to the floor, dove to the floor, people were screaming,

Steven Monaco

Hold a dove to tight and you'll kill it, hold it to loose and it'll fly away.

Loren Smith

I thought that was the highlight of the meet and I was not expecting that, but she dove great and it's a high score for a girl to go that on six dives on the three-meter.

Loren Smith

I was very happy with how the men dove this weekend, especially after we just got done with the training trip.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.

Tim Scott

I just dove into the Scriptures and started memorizing different scriptures and started becoming as much as possible a part of the scripture. I wanted it to be grafted into my heart.

Amanda Hearst

I'm pretty relaxed with my skincare. I really like two brands: Tata Harper and Ren, which is a natural skincare line. I use lotions, and I use Dove soap.

Pope Benedict

The dove wants to stay with the pope but it will find its freedom.

Michael Shamberg

We're not doing the Towering Inferno - Titanic version.

Dante Alighieri

They yearn for what they fear for.

Dante Alighieri

Love insists the loved loves back

Anders Zorn

Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.

Janelle Berry

It went from very little smoke to inferno very, very quickly.

Emile M. Cioran

Society: an inferno of saviors!

Rachel Caine

It’s like disco inferno up in here