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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.
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
national-security gross negligence
Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony. Bill O'Reilly
national number people playing team whenever
Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?
national operating response
We were already operating under the National Response Plan.
national sang
I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral. Michael W. Smith
national persuaded reform trying unwilling
We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,
national spell
We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC. LenDale White
national spell
We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.
national people power russian traditions
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside. Vladimir Putin
national people realise
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest. Kofi Annan
nature giving natural
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
nature humility pride
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
nature men self
If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.
nature moon shining
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.
nature dark moon
The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.
nature wall dark
A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.
nature morning fall
It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.
nature dark winter
The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.
nature wall rain
Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.
preserved role technology unique
reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.
preserved protect recreation
These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.
putting science start
When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers. Michael Behe
putting slowly supposed taking together
We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album, Patterson Hood
putting team together
We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.
putting season
We're putting things in place this season to get us there. Steve Davis
putting
Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done. Kourtney Kardashian
putting
What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars? Nancy Grace
putting
I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean? Shane MacGowan
putting
I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else. Jeff Ross
putting
I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk. Najib Razak
rural stigma worry
I worry about the stigma -- especially in rural areas.
rural
In rural areas, this can be very serious.
twins anticipation born
Anticipation and Hope are born twins. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
twins
I had a twin, and he didn't make it. Jay Pharoah
twins sin dense
There are no identical twins, or forgivable sins. Ozzy Osbourne
twins stage
I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage. Ike Turner
twins twin-sister seriousness
When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness. Plato
twins knows
A twin knows exactly when the other one is spitting up, but that’s all they know about anything. Mary-Kate Olsen
twins twin-sister foolishness
Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom. Witold Gombrowicz
twins foreigners ifs
I love the Twins, ... I bleed the Twins. That's all I know. If I go anywhere else, I'd be a foreigner. Torii Hunter
valleys no-fear right-now
There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now, Bill Gurley
valley
Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways. Kacey Musgraves
valleys want hell
If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley. Bill Gates
valleys treasure bears
Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra. Lloyd Bridges
valleys residents
They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been. Norton Juster
valleys sanctuary spirituality
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. Ellen Glasgow
valleys trouble infinite
I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason. Helen Keller
valleys jolly
O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell J. R. R. Tolkien
valleys hills heartbeat
I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys Isaac Marion