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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. Carlos Fuentes
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. C. S. Lewis
evil intellectual rehabilitation
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. Charles Wagner
evil may lessons
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil. Charles Dickens
evil lazy would-be
The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong. Charles Dickens
evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Charles Caleb Colton
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. Charles Caleb Colton
evil decision choices
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. Charles Caleb Colton
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain. Charles Caleb Colton
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse. Charles Caleb Colton
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. Charles Dickens
elements presented priorities turn visions
We have presented our visions and our priorities to you. Now it's your turn to look at those elements and those priorities to see where you can help, Hoshyar Zebari
elements weight
The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights. Dmitri Mendeleev
elements weight certain
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights. Dmitri Mendeleev
elements weight periodicity
The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. Dmitri Mendeleev
elements
I'm more aware of time. The element of time. Dianne Wiest
elements judged people science worst
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce. Octavia E. Butler
elements jazz-improvisation jazz
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation. Jan Garbarek
elements light
There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away. Christopher Bailey
elements
There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately. Anton Corbijn