Life As We Knew It Character Quotes

#1. Playing against better competition makes you better and more focused, so you can do what you have to, to win.

Karch Kiraly

#2. An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

Anthony Bourdain

#3. Our character was being forged on the anvil of the difficult experiences we were facing. We knew that if we remained committed to God's purposes for us, we would be prepared to face the future.

George Foster

#4. Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

Ed Koch

#5. You have to believe, in the deepest part of your soul, that it is a good thing for readers to buy and read your book.

Tim Grahl

#6. But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't hard to guess what he must have been like as a young man--for a man's character doesn't change after he's thirty. It only becomes more firmly set, and is more deeply marked in his features.

Ralph Moody

#7. I knew he wouldn't die, because his life was like the roots of a tree that went miles into the soil and miles around its trunk and came up in my cousins, in their faces and their voices and their character. I didn't think you could kill a tree that big. Not even God could kill a tree that big.

Donald Miller

#8. It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.

Alexandra Robbins

#9. I want to thank you for that. Personally. Whether you knew it at that time or not, you had a great deal to do with shaping the life and character of the man I have come to love

Janette Oke

#10. The thing about 'Batman Begins' is that he's a character that people thought they knew a lot about, and yet you're able to identify the spirit in his life where even in the comic books it's not explored that much.

David S.Goyer

#11. there's more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief.

Pema Chodron

#12. Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer.
Dante Pontis

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.

Dave Barry

#15. There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.

Karen Joy Fowler

#16. Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

Larry Eisenberg

#17. Tell me you love me," I pleaded"
"Gideon's eyes met mine. "You know I do"
"Imagine if I i ever said the words to you. If you never heard them from me"
"His chest expanded on a deep breath. "Crossfire

Sylvia Day

#18. For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

Danah Boyd

#19. I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.

Norman Lock

#20. The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

Mahatma Gandhi