T. S. Eliot Quotes, Passion Quotes, Character Quotes

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.

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America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

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My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

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If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

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Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Character Quotes

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.

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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , Pride Quotes

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Wise Quotes , Character Quotes

"Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy."

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

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I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Character Quotes , Trying Quotes

The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Interesting Quotes

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

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Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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