![Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the deep, and perhaps indelible, mark, which a servitude of two hundred years has imprinted on the character of the Russians.](/assets/img/quote-photos/both-moscow-and-kiev-the-modern-and-the-ancient-capitals-were-reduced-to-ashe.jpg)
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character honor foundation
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad. Arthur Schopenhauer
character writing interesting
I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just not enough cool, interesting characters out there. Debby Ryan
character light plot
My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen. Christopher Nolan
character interesting alive
The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being. Christopher Reeve
character results ready
I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.
character looks reason
To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look. Christopher Walken
character mean thinking
I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.
character born
Characters are born from necessity. Christopher Paolini
character hard-work years
TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play. Christopher Meloni
years sam-cooke
I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old. Bobby Womack
years issues adequate
Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads. Bobby Scott
years cpr police
In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR. Bobby Sherman
years guy half
At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right. Bobby Knight
years perception band
There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things Alex Turner
years students quiet
What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well. Alex Tabarrok
years ties tie-dye
Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop. Alex Kapranos
years aggravation gang-members
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years. Albert Wynn
years needs train
Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare. Albert Pujols
two feet west
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east... Aldous Huxley
two doe said
I don't know what you two are up to," Hobart said. "But you be careful now, you hear? Don't do anything I wouldn't do." "Well now, that doesn't restrict us very much, does it?" Mark teased back. Margaret Haddix
two giving likes
... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified. Margaret Halsey
two creating goal
As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs. Marcus Buckingham
two kitchen three
My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony. Kina Grannis
two giving caviar
Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes. Michael Kors
two numbers people
I'm a little jaded about change actually happening, I'll admit. The numbers are exactly the same as they were two decades ago, in terms of the number of female leads, or people behind the camera, all of that. I'll certainly do my part, and I feel like Jessica Jones is a great step. Melissa Rosenberg
two healer
Stab one or two healers, and everyone overreacts. Melissa Marr
two political doe
Congress does two things well: nothing and overreacting. Michael Oxley