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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.
instead looking materials removal sealing
We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue. Mayor Barse
instead people
We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.
instead market money
We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.
instead line shadow
We're going to shadow a line instead of one player. Martin Brodeur
instead placing season shoot taking
When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.
instead ok settle
We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.
instead yards
Unfortunately, it went 9 yards instead of 10. Kelly Clark
instead nice treating
They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot." () Norma McCorvey
instead women
If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open. Odette Annable
sue wants wish
We didn't see another option. No one wants to sue a two-ton gorilla. I wish we didn't have to do it.
sue
A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.
sue taken
It's my mission to sue the MPAA and take them down. I don't know how to go about doing that. But to me, it seems like it's something that has to be taken care of. Seth Rogen
sue
Can you sue the city? Yes. Can you successfully sue? Maybe.
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