Al Swearengen Quotes, Character Quotes, Pimp Quotes

You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.

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Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Character Quotes

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

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Tags : A. B. Simpson Quotes , Humble Quotes , Character Quotes

Music is a defining element of character.

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

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

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Tags : Aaron Sorkin Quotes , Wall Quotes , Character Quotes

I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go "Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'"

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Character Quotes , Voice Quotes

Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Character Quotes

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

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Tags : Adelaide Kane Quotes , Hate Quotes , Character 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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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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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Memories Quotes , Character Quotes

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

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Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Art Quotes , Character Quotes

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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