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Characters Quotes (page 69)

As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity." Al Gore
Jean Paul quote: "A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he..."
A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's Jean Paul
I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart. Mary Oliver
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people, not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest. R. A. Salvatore
Heraclitus quote: "Man's character is his fate."
Man's character is his fate. Heraclitus
Sue Grafton quote: "He might be a man without character, but she was a woman..."
He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse? Sue Grafton
Henry Hazlitt quote: "A man who is good from docility, and not from stern..."
A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character. Henry Hazlitt
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends toward the formation of character. Hosea Ballou
The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. Haruki Murakami
Muriel Spark quote: "I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams."
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams. Muriel Spark
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood. Carlos Fuentes
With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us. Stephen King
John C. Maxwell quote: "Talent is a gift, but character is a choice."
Talent is a gift, but character is a choice. John C. Maxwell
Seven Deadly Sins. Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Science without humanity. Knowledge without character. Politics without principle. Commerce without morality. Worship without sacrifice. Mahatma Gandhi
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Richard Dawkins

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