Characters Quotes

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It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where… — Samuel Johnson
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our… — Thomas Browne
I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they… — Jackie Collins
I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a… — Jerzy Kosinski
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion. — Benjamin Jowett
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. — William Makepeace Thackeray
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. — Margot Asquith
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. — Henry David Thoreau
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. — Ryan Gosling
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make… — Ernest Hemingway
Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral?… — Ezra Taft Benson
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary… — Oswald Avery
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the… — Ernst Haeckel
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the… — Ernst Haeckel
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of… — Linus Pauling
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach… — Adam Sedgwick
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a… — Vera Farmiga
I say, without characters, fame lives long. — William Shakespeare

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