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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.
who-we-are stories species
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are. Alan Rickman
who-we-are cost has-beens
How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are? David McCullough
who-we-are looks accepting
If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences. Deepak Chopra
who-we-are
When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are. Beth Moore
who-we-are cinema reminders
Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of. Demian Bichir
who-we-are matter want
Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be. Brene Brown
who-we-are debt finance
Debt has become a part of who we are. Dave Ramsey
who-we-are remember increase
Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are. Aleister Crowley
who-we-are action ultimate-questions
The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action. Bryant H. McGill
human-nature abstinence appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
human-nature lifeless permanent
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Alan Watts
human-nature born unfortunate
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. David Hume
human-nature tendencies humans
Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify. Bill Maher
human-nature multitudes
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so. Baltasar Gracian
human-nature socialism economics
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. Ludwig von Mises
human-nature conventions should
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot
human-nature social institutions
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. Edward Abbey
human-nature humans human-beings
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.