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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.
deep-thought disease saws
I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible. Charles Spurgeon
deep-water water knowing-god
You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.
deeper determines experience god greatest personally power push quality quite talk teacher walk within
How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher. Lorraine Toussaint
deep proves
We've always been deep on the bench, ... and it just proves that we can play with any team. Tim Palmer
deep shadow
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
deep dirt parking ruts train walk welcome
When you walk off the train from New York, you see this dirt parking lot with deep ruts and tractor-trailers with graffiti on them. Welcome to New Brunswick.
deeper type understanding
It's so important as a creative person to go out and look for things. Go to galleries, talk to people, read books. Yes, you can just type something into Google, but if you read and interact, you'll have a deeper understanding of the world. Nicola Formichetti
deeper work
There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
deep man mystery object retain simple somehow
I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.
fiction flash
I don't do flash fiction. Charles Stross
fiction science-fiction conventions
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. China Mieville
fiction geek fantasy
I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
fiction fantasy weirdness
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
fiction type inferiors
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them. David Morrell
fiction plausible
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction David Mitchell
fiction different process
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. Chad Harbach
fiction-stories world common
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told. Kurt Vonnegut
fiction narrative moments
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore. Edith Wharton
fitness attention biscuits
Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas
fitness flower health
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
fit five grades kids media nicely studies target
We want to target kids in grades five through eight. It could fit very nicely into the media studies curriculum.
fitness injuries levels players skill
We want to see that these players are over their injuries and their fitness and skill levels are up to international standard,
fitness healthy vitamins
When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy. Catherine Bell
fit wherever
Wherever I can fit in and contribute, I'll be happy.
fit hard life tried worked
One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in. Mark Helprin
fitness men disease
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases Edward Jenner
fitness health two
Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. Denis Waitley
godfather
Chris Guest is the godfather of improvisational comedy.
godfather good uncle
He was like a godfather to all of us. He's like your good uncle or something. He was a pal.
godfather looked ron
Ron is the godfather of this movie. He really looked after us while we were in Columbia.
godfather love
I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two. Mickey Rourke
godfather trials
It's a godfather relationship. He's been through the trials and tribulations. Devin Hester
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
places-to-go bali resorts
Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go. Diane von Furstenberg
places-to-go favorite-places different
Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places. Dhani Jones
places tons
There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London. Yotam Ottolenghi
places reality surprising weirder
It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. Cory Doctorow
places pluck poor resource
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living. P. J. O'Rourke
places
When I look back, there are so many places where we can improve.
places subject war
Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?' Lynsey Addario
places positive
We have positive places around this community. One of them is Townsend Center.
places-to-go broke
There's a great place to go when you're broke--to work! Dave Ramsey
robust
We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
robust
Security can be enhanced with hardware. You can have a software-only solution, but it can be made more robust in conjunction with hardware.
robust slow
Having one or two things slow us down isn't particularly unexpected. We are going to have a very robust spacecraft.
robust
Our back-to school-season was not as robust as we hoped, Brad Anderson
robust system
It will be a much more robust system and structure. John Carroll