Character

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  • Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion.
        Maynard James Keenan   Best?
  • A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
        Antoine de Saint-Exupery   Best?
  • You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
        Bernadette Peters   Best?
  • I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.
        Jake Johanson   Best?
  • Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.
        Plato   Best?
  • There's no jealousy in the grave.
        Rudyard Kipling   Best?
  • When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
        Alfred Hitchcock   Best?
  • Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity.
        Bias   Best?
  • Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.
        Leone Levi   Best?
  • Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
        Henry Beston   Best?
  • I am not a role model.
        Mike Tyson   Best?
  • He admits there are two sides to every question: his own and the wrong side.
        Channing Pollock   Best?
  • It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
        Seneca   Best?
  • A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
        Tao Te Ching   Best?
  • You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
        Epictetus   Best?
  • Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
        James A. Froude   Best?
  • The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
        Alvin Toffler   Best?
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
        Nick Diamos   Best?
  • Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
        Alfred Alder   Best?
  • The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
        Joe Ancis   Best?
  • If you aren't just a little bit depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.
        Pete Wentz   Best?
  • The greatest thing that I have learned is probably the simplest thing any of us can learn: I am who I am.
        Sonny Barger   Best?
  • Your reflection is just a mirror image, your real form is inside.
        Keni   Best?
  • Let your desires be ruled by reason.
        Cicero   Best?
  • If you know me you know how uncool I am. I stutter, wear bad clothes, make bad jokes, make conversation uncomfortable, the list goes on. Thank you for making me feel okay.
        Pete Wentz   Best?

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