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character past men
Charles Dickens As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.
character eye names
Charles Dickens If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.
character interesting long
Charles Dickens "My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
Charles Dickens "You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Charles Caleb Colton Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.
character abuse criticism
Charles Caleb Colton When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
Charles Caleb Colton We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Charles Caleb Colton Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
thinking words-of-wisdom done
Charles Dickens At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .
thinking words-of-wisdom asking
Charles Dickens When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
thinking hiking feet-and-walking
Charles Dickens If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking two glory
Charles Caleb Colton There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
thinking enemy frankness
Charles Caleb Colton He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
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 daring finished
Charles Caleb Colton Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
thinking mind wish
Charles Dickens I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.
interesting challenges trying
Alan Rickman You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
interesting acting process
Alan Rickman What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
interesting enemy brain
Alan Bradley I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
interesting interviews want
Al Pacino I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
interesting waiting groups
Childe Hassam I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.
interesting people doubt
David Hockney I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.
interesting people faces
David Hockney Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.
interesting challenges trying
David Brin But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.
interesting humans
David Brin I find humans tremendously interesting