Alan Ball Quotes, Character Quotes, Emotional Quotes

I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

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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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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Character Quotes

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

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

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , War Quotes , Character Quotes

Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

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Tags : Aaron Stanford Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Character Quotes

As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Past Quotes

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

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Tags : Alan Lee Quotes , Character Quotes , Legends Quotes

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Character Quotes , Succeed Quotes

I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on Episodes. He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.

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Tags : Adam Pally Quotes , Character Quotes , Gay Quotes

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Character Quotes , Mirrors Quotes

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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

But rules cannot substitute for character.

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Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Character Quotes

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