George W. Bush Quotes, Character Quotes, Government Quotes

What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

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

Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

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Tags : Aaron Gillespie Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Dream Quotes , Character Quotes

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , True Friend Quotes , Character Quotes

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Discovery Quotes

The Greek people have gone through some very difficult times and there's still a hard road ahead, but despite those hardships, Greece has continued to be a reliable ally, has shown true compassion to fellow human beings in need. It's an example of the Greek character.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Character Quotes , Compassion 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

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Girl Quotes , Character Quotes

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Interesting Quotes

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Strong Quotes , Character Quotes

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , Past Quotes

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

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Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Character Quotes

Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. Her voice in this movie [Rock of ages] is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she's just this person who blows out of the screen. She's just incredible.

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Tags : Adam Shankman Quotes , Queens Quotes , Character Quotes

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Character Quotes , Psychology Quotes

"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Communication 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