Characterwhich Quotes

#1. There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. No human relation gives one possession in another - every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Kahlil Gibran

#3. She had too much of everything, and so she longed to have less; less, she was sure, would bring her happiness. To me it was a laugh and a relief to observe the unhappiness that too much can bring; I had been so used to observing the reults of too little.

Jamaica Kincaid

#4. Our challenge isn't in becoming more than we are, because we are already risen and complete. Our challenge is to remember and abide in who we are, each day and each hour.

Ted Dekker

#5. Its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive him-self'.

Richard Dawkins

#6. Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

George Lucas

#7. Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.

Joe Rogan

#8. I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.

Tom Coburn

#9. I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

Katy Perry

#10. There is little good in people. Little good"
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"Yet it can be found. All the more precious for its rarity

Steven Erikson

#11. I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.

Marya Hornbacher