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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.
eggs doors wife
The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees... Charles Stuart Calverley
eggs lay mostly
We use it mostly for perch. They lay their eggs on the trees. J. J. Johnson
eggs bricks bad-mood
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks. David Mitchell
eggs
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome. Jane Austen
eggs white evil
The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God. Charles Spurgeon
eggs swim golden
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know. Chogyam Trungpa
eggs far found human looking number presented research science
We are looking into how many human eggs were used in his research, but so far we have found that the number of eggs exceeds the ones presented in the Science paper. Roe Hye
eggs nest saying
We have a saying in China. When a nest is overturned, no eggs go unbroken.
eggs people wake-up
When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad. Casey Affleck
tree remember remember-me
Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.
tree shade way
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. Charles Dickens
tree alive mulberry
I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
tree world this-world
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. Alan Watts
tree sun bigs
When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. Chinua Achebe
tree lizards praise
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
tree pebbles branches
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me. Cheryl Strayed
tree fool fruit
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend. Chanakya
tree pity form
Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me. Charlaine Harris