Plato Quotes, Character Quotes, Men Quotes

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn't happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn't happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

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... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

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My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.

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On or about December 1910, human character changed.

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Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

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The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Character Quotes , Kids Quotes

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Character Quotes

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

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Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

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I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Drama Quotes , Character Quotes

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

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