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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.
god lasts tiny
God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
god magnitude
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
god men law
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
god two forgive-me
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
godmother good-things lost
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
godly spirit holy-spirit
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. Charles Stanley
god christian doubt
God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."
god prayer christian-inspirational
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
god disappointment choices
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. Alan Moore
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time. Brian Nicola
hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands ignorant used
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts
lovable made loving-me
Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.) Brennan Manning
lovable love michaels
'Rock of Love' with Bret Michaels was fun. He's a lovable guy. Kristen Schaal
lovable ready-for-love receptive
Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love. Louise Hay
lovable
I am worth loving. I do not have to earn love. I am lovable because I exist. Others reflect the love I have for myself.
lovable
I'm a lovable, harmless, lovable, little fuzzball. Rush Limbaugh
manipulation manipulate
I've never tried to manipulate my image.
management function greater
The smaller the function, the greater the management. C. Northcote Parkinson
man poetry
The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.
manipulative
I'm not naturally manipulative. Benjamin Netanyahu
mankind historian dependence
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? David Hume
managers
I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher
manners cowardice characteristics
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Edward Everett
manhattan
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! Ed Koch
management terrorism torture
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Edward Kennedy
puts risk
Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk. Kofi Annan
puts
This puts us right where we want to be ? things will get real interesting. Larry Coker
puts side table
This puts them on the same side of the table as you,
puts till understand words
There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words
puts
Certainly, I don't think it puts us at a (recruiting) disadvantage. Jeff Long
puts yankee
Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win! Phil Rizzuto
puts
He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers. Mack Strong
puts town
It essentially puts our little town on the map.
puts roy
Roy is not a promoter. He's very laid-back. That's not a show he puts on. Phil Garner