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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.
temptation virtue
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue. Agnes Repplier
temptation wealth snares
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. Charles Caleb Colton
temptation important weakness
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before. Charles Stanley
temptation sometimes christ
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ? Charles Spurgeon
temptation elbows
Temptation: the fiend at my elbow. William Shakespeare
temptation wizards hypothesis
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. Barbara Hambly
temptation terrible be-good
Terrible is the temptation to be good. Bertolt Brecht
temptation literature terrible
Temptation to behave is terrible.
temptation chinese succeed
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. Bob Parsons
may traitor very-true
It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.
may drink thirst
If you thirst you may drink.
may idiot lion-witch-wardrobe
I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be...
may matter reason-why
But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be. Agnes Smedley
may fool stories
Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't. Aaron Sorkin
maybe mike mitchell player productive replace somewhat talented though trying
We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman. Al Bagnoli
may mathematics mathematical
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded... Alan Turing
may attention talent
You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing. Alan Shepard
may cost lovers
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. Charlotte Bronte