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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.
entering lives personal potential
The potential for their personal lives entering in their professional lives is dynamic. David Boreanaz
entering splinters becoming
Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group. Dennis Miller
entering people
We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures. Louis Armstrong
entering gaining life mainstream wine
We're gaining traction in the U.S. market. Wine is entering the mainstream of American life for the first time. Jon Fredrikson
entering felt imagine risked succeeded
When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder. Isabella Rossellini
entering granted love magazines recognize taken trade vastness worlds
I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better recognize the vastness of the social universe - for there are so, so many worlds that are not your own. Rick Perlstein
entering fear left promise seem short therefore
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
entering sees time trying
I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing. Pierre Bonnard
entering period stock
We're entering a seasonal period now, pre-Thanksgiving, pre-December holidays, where we often see a stock advance,
jukebox nostalgia homesick
We are homesick most for the places we have never known. Carson McCullers
jukebox coins records
That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox . . . Stanislaw Lem
jukebox nicknames
My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. Richard Simmons