Charles Dickens Quotes, Character Quotes, Interesting Quotes

Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement.

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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Character Quotes , Russia Quotes

I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc...but at the same time, when I work on projects that are substantially bigger, in a way they do feel small. Even though the catering is way better and we actually have someone shooting with real film.... The budgets are bigger but the story still feels small, like an indie film.

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There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Character Quotes , Two Quotes

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Life Quotes , Character Quotes

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Religious Quotes , Character Quotes

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Character Quotes , Differences Quotes

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

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Tags : Aaron Paul Quotes , Hero Quotes , Character Quotes

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Character Quotes

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Character Quotes , Order Quotes

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Character Quotes , Sea Quotes

The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Character Quotes

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Color Quotes

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes