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character interesting people
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. Charles Dickens
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows. Charles Caleb Colton
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
character winter giving
Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.
character voice interesting
He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.
character men hands
The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.
character butterfly interesting
Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.
character agony numbers
He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.
character men air
He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
adversity blessing sometimes
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
adversity prosperity shrinks
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
adversity half known
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
adversity suffering
But we must not suffer over the suffering. Alan Watts
adversity opportunity leader
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving. Chip Conley
adversity men crosses
A man I am cross'd with adversity. William Shakespeare
adversity school trouble
Adversity is a good school. Charlotte Bronte
adversity lasts camels
It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
adversity destiny detours
Trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny. Beth Moore
responsibility acting talent
Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility. Alan Rickman
responsibility character scripts
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing. Al Pacino
responsibility primaries
My primary responsibility is to be funny, Al Madrigal
responsibility getting-older roles
I wanted to take on a little bit more of a leadership role. I'm getting older and things are coming to me more and I have to take responsibility for that. Chris Bosh
responsibility rich-or-poor faces
We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility. Chogyam Trungpa
responsibility accepting improving
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
responsibility air land
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership. Chinua Achebe
responsibility littles authority
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced. Dean Acheson
responsibility athlete pride
I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete. Dayron Robles