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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.
cutting giving people
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. Carol Moseley Braun
cutting hair tiny
I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair. Carol Vorderman
cutting way woods
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way. Carl Andre
cutting tasks three
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.
cutting two coward
And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.
cutting hair people
I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid. Agnes Varda
cutting dollars needs
There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare. Charlie Dent
cutting thinking people
I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is Charles de Lint
cutting desert forests
You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.
veins lessons
The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited. Cyril Connolly
veins want wannabes
If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty. Andrew Williams
veins acid batteries
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. Chuck Palahniuk
veins hitting mainstream
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream. Jim Jarmusch
veins slides kind
He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins. George Herbert
veins venus obsession
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. Jean Racine
veins language wave
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves. Jean Cocteau
veins exhausted
Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one. Henry David Thoreau
veins unanswered-questions sticks
Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein? Stevie Wonder