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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.
blow wrecks lasts
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
blow light candle
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. Charles Spurgeon
blow sharks hands
I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup. Alan Alda
blow people focus
I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor. Chris Christie
blow people suffering
Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
blow white african-american
Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map. Camille Paglia
blown good step
We still think we're a good team. We didn't get blown out of here (in Cleveland), for one. We're capable. We just have to step it up a little bit. Vince Carter
blow wind liberty
I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have. William Shakespeare
blow world buffets
I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
wind rising sawdust
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
wind arctic knows
I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing! Alan Green
wind outsiders balloons
I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me. Chris Bauer
wind hair passionate
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
window tapping
Someone was tapping on the window. Dave Barry
wind sea voice
There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?"