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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.
views issues doctrine
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
views roots squares
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.
views hands serious
Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.
views doe indifference
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced. Agnes Repplier
views where-you-come matter
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from. Aasif Mandvi
views perspective point-of-view
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points Alan Kay
views effort suffering
It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others. Charlotte Bronte
views safe edges
Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better Ricky Gervais
views world universal-truth
In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false. Brian Cox
life-is-short dumb waste
Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb? Aaron Swartz
life-is trouble permanent
Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles. Charlie Chaplin
life-is depends
For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. Bram Stoker
life-is you-like-it loud
Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. Djuna Barnes
life-is intense
My work life is intense. But I love what I do. David Rubenstein
life-is dont-change supposed-to-be
Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change. Jamie Lee Curtis
life-is hell prize
Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought. Janet Frame
life-is existence meaningless
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there. Alan Alda
life-is-great life-is knows
Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.