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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 self challenges
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. Chiang Kai-shek
destiny needs stories
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Alan Rickman
destiny together safe
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart. Edith Wharton
destiny
Anything that is conceivable is possible. David Hume
destiny links chains
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny. Baroness Orczy
destiny luxury giving
It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies. Audre Lorde
destiny garden people
It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy. Niki de St. Phalle
destiny feelings far-away
... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ... Kurt Vonnegut
destiny entrepreneur want
You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is. Benjamin Watson
destiny lame loser
Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen. Cecily von Ziegesar