Mark Twain Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Character Quotes

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

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The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

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It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Memorable Quotes , Character Quotes

Character is plot, plot is character.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

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Tags : A. C. Bradley Quotes , Lying Quotes , Character Quotes

To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.

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Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

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

A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Character Quotes , Italian Quotes

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Character 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

In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Names Quotes

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.

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We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Spring Quotes , Character Quotes

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Blue Quotes

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

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Tags : Aaron Stanford Quotes , Character Quotes , Interesting Quotes

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Character Quotes , Circles Quotes

Jay Lethal doing that Black Machsimo character, as good as that was, it was fantastic and so entertaining. But now Jay Lethal has turned himself into this very formidable, dominant world champion, who is having some of the best matches in the entire world. So it's really cool.

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Tags : Adam Cole Quotes , Character Quotes , Champion Quotes