Character Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Life Mold
“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Life is raw material... We are artisans.. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful or debase it into ugliness.. It's in our hands ... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Life is grinding stone, weather it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone. — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“(People) ... we're clay. Living, breathing, thinking, feeling clay, and we can shape ourselves into anything we want, and we keep shaping ourselves all… — Dan Wells, Ruins Copy Share Image
Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Life is an act of endless creativity. With all its simmering tragedy and occasional catastrophe, a human life is an amazing thing to contemplate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is the biggest workshop: you have to observe life. You have to be one with the milieu more than anything else. — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
