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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.
cotton found percent socks
We found that 100 percent cotton socks were usually the worst, especially when a person started to sweat. Robert Mooney
cotton history life marriages plantation recorded southern washing work
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures. Robert Wilson
cotton gin
I never thought my cotton gin would change history. Eli Whitney
cotton making-money laurels
I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton. Albert Einstein
cotton foundation natural
Natural fabrications such as linen, silk, cotton sateen and voile are the foundation for this trend.
cotton eat fluffy stay
You can eat a lot more vegetables than you can cotton candy. Bring on the veggies. Stay away from the fluffy carbs. Stephen Furst
cotton-candy weapons shields
Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either. David Levithan
cotton may hard
It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have. David Baldacci
cotton hold looked saw talking trying
He is trying to get away, and we are trying to get a hold of him. He hollers, 'Shoot him.' And that is when me and Cotton looked where he was talking and first saw Jennifer.
included pops
Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere. Twyla Tharp
included players prove return side themselves
But all the players who have not been included know that they can return to the side if they prove themselves on the pitch. Luis Aragones
included opposition parties
I don't think that Pakistan's opposition parties are included in the US president's schedule.
included
I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism. Stella Young
included university ups
The experiences here at the University of Connecticut included ups and downs, but I think they have all made me into a better person and for that, I will always be grateful.
included possible students toward using
It is possible that some students know what drugs are and are not included in the tests, and migrate toward using those not included.
included price
If we included this in the price of our room, it could put us at a competitive disadvantage.
included movies
The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping. Alan Alda
included number petition properties total
The petition included the total number of properties on the acreage, ... It did not specify that these two landowners would not be included in the annexation.
signed
We're finalizing a settlement. It should be signed soon.
signed
She delivers the signed affidavit to Mr. Jordan, Asa Hutchinson
signed
She signed me up and said, 'You have to do this,'
signed
If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
signed
One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension. Johnny Rivers
signed
My granddad always said, 'Until you have a signed deal, you don't have a deal.' Mark Jones
signed
I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986). Kitty Kelley
signed
I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract. Marin Alsop
signed until
He didn't even tell us until after he'd signed up.
stretched
Right now, we're stretched payday to payday, but we'll get it done. Sue Miller
stretched
At some point, when stretched so far, you break. We are not made of elastic. Gerry Adams
stretched
It was more important for me to get stretched out. Mark Hendrickson
strong jobs men
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.
strong mind haste
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
strong party reason
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.
strong hands monsters
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.
strong advice desire
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.
strong passion may
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
strong men thinking
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
strong circles errors
Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.
strong two mind
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
wire
We're going to take it right down to the wire to make that decision.
wire telephones principles
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition. Dennis Gabor
wired
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
wire shields fans
I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield. Donal Logue
wire jordan obsessed
I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality! Andrew Garfield
wire yards bouquets
As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet. Kurt Vonnegut
wireless
Our wireless routers are indoors, while the new networks' will be outside.
wireless
Wireless is really kind of where everyone's going.
wireless
Wireless is on fire. I don't see what slows wireless down.