Characteristical Quotes

#1. It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

Henry Fielding

#2. I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

Deborah Norville

#3. I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

Edith Hamilton

#5. You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

#6. It's usually my mom who gets on me about my facial hair. I can't grow a good mustache, so I guess it's just a neck beard. I just have trouble growing up there.

Andrew Luck

#7. The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning.

Katherine McCoy

#8. The way time here feels simultaneously immense and tiny.

Anthony Doerr

#9. Where we are as a species is very far away from where I am as an individual, and I am many miles away from where I want to be.

Steve Merrick