Adrian Tomine Quotes, Character Quotes, People Quotes

I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.

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Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Strong Quotes , Character Quotes

Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Character Quotes , Being Positive Quotes

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Character Quotes , Responsibility Quotes

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Weed Quotes , Character Quotes

By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.

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Tags : Adam Ross Quotes , Character Quotes , Trying Quotes

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Character Quotes

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

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Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Character Quotes , Play Quotes

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

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Tags : Abraham Kuyper Quotes , Character Quotes , Church Quotes

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

"I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders. "James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, to me, or to anyone in whom I feel an interest."

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Best Wishes Quotes

She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Interesting Quotes

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Should Quotes

The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Character Quotes , Atheism Quotes