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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.
convinced face guy until wayne wore
Wayne was the kind of guy who would get in your face until he convinced you ... or he just wore you out. Michael Dawidziak
convinced dared fiction good graduate mine poems point school took
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad. Natasha Trethewey
convinced device tracking
When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm. Annalee Newitz
convinced decided experience helps offer recently series
I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience. Kate Klise
convinced mere paid repeat satellite serious twenty visit
I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. Jules Verne
convinced fully
I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause. Italo Calvino
convinced family norm
I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children. Vladimir Putin
convinced country women
I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school. Joyce Banda
convinced couples exactly listening music songs together
I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy. Kylie Minogue
deceit incompetence clinton
We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America. Chris Christie
deceit deceived poor-richard
None are deceived but they that confide. Benjamin Franklin
deceit creation lord
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
deceit deception err thou thy
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
deceit familiar invasion lost power vietnam
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. Noam Chomsky
deceit get-money deceived
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. Aristophanes
deceit causes holy
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. Aeschylus
deceit deception people suspect truth
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
deceit these-days fraud
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times. Edward Coke
happens things-happen
Everything happens for me, not to me. Byron Katie
happens ferry i-can
I can never predict what's going to happen. Bryan Ferry
happens
That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for. Catherynne M. Valente
happening obsessed starts
Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language. Dorothy Allison
happen youths
When youths take to the street, you don't know what can happen ....
happened known supposed until
I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present. Mariel Hemingway
happened last moderate shows steady
When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.
happened happens paper
It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment. Holly Holm
happened justify last sit three
We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year, Jon Gruden
typewriters years space
My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that. David Sedaris
typewriters joy trying
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it. Charles Kuralt
type minus
Im not really Type A, but A minus. Bobbi Brown
type
You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going. Bob Marley
typewriters novelists poet
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. Billy Collins
type knows know-how
I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything. Billy Bob Thornton
typecast
The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you. Kevin Rahm
typewriters circumstances virginians
Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter. Daniel Handler
type-2-diabetes vampire boring
In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes. Craig Ferguson