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character water taste
Charles Caleb Colton 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.
character long aging
Charles Caleb Colton Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
character winter giving
Charles Dickens 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
Charles Dickens 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
Charles Dickens 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
Charles Dickens 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
Charles Dickens 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
Charles Dickens 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.
opportunity identity limits
Alan Arkin A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
opportunity actors stuff
Al Pacino If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.
opportunity each-day new-opportunity
Aiden Wilson Tozer Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.
opportunity america miracle
Chris Coons I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue
opportunity water world
Chris Albrecht One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside, which will allow us to build a boat and probably part of another ship to be able to really bring that world to life.
opportunity careers may
Chris Albrecht Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.
opportunity conservative
Chris Alexander I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later.
opportunity privilege down-and
Chris Abani The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.
opportunity endurance process
Chin-Ning Chu Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.
wish contempt
William Shakespeare What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.
wish world sun
William Shakespeare I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
wish might matter
Madeleine Albright No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
wish gum enough
C. S. Lewis By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!
wish invisible
C. S. Lewis And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.
wish leisure wit
C. S. Lewis if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
wish use type
Alan Ladd I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing
wish here-and-now enjoy
Cheri Huber When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
wish facts shy
Charlotte Gainsbourg I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.