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real deceit our-actions
Charles Caleb Colton The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
real honest strategy
Charles Caleb Colton Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
real character mean
Charles Caleb Colton Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
real home thinking
Charles Caleb Colton We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
real writing editing
Charles Caleb Colton Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
real heart optimistic
Charles Dickens Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
real words-of-wisdom quality
Charles Dickens A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.
real men soldier
Charles Studd It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
Charles Dickens I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Charles Dickens Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
Charles Dickens I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
Charles Dickens and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
Charles Dickens The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Charles Stewart Parnell Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
expression games people
Alan Watts The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.
expression freedom-of-speech given
Alan Bennett I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
expression united-states lost
Edith Wharton Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.
expression long community
David Icke Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule of 'Do what you like so long as you don't impose it on others'. Authority's role should be in protecting the unwilling from the will of another. After that, they should push off and leave us alone.
expression style embellishment
David Hume Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.
expression dutch tongue
Ben van Berkel I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.
expression worry soul
Jack Kerouac But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.
expression oregon opinion
Bill O'Reilly I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.
expression understanding identity
Charles Taylor We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.