Best interest & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

“It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, - that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, - that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium.”

Men Should Wells May Made Character Interest Wealth Numbers Moral Produce Amount Birth Circumstances Intelligent Prepared Educated Midst Sensations Employed Millennium Well Educated

Author:Robert Owen

“I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.”

“How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.”

Thinking Character Stories Age Past Names Interest Too Much Pages Forgotten Immortality Thrown Volume Idle Boast Anecdotes

Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.”

Sometimes Character Interest Loses Animal Tree

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.”

Men Character Joy Interest Grief Prosperity Indifferent Joy And Grief

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter what the gender is. I think actresses worry about eyelashes and cellulite, and women who are actors worry about the characters we are playing. A separate category is another way of making us a special-interest group.”

“Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.”

Feels Children Stills Character Interest Personality Enthusiasm Teenager Fictional Character

Author:Scott Bradfield

“To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.”

Trying Persons Real Character Interest Aspect Favourite Combining Real Person Fictional Character

Author:Caroline Lawrence

“"I take my leave of you, Mr. Creakle, and all of you," said Mr. Mell, glancing round the room, and again patting me gently on the shoulders. "James Steerforth, the best wish I can leave you is that you may come to be ashamed of what you have done today. At present I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, to me, or to anyone in whom I feel an interest."”

Feels May Said I Can Done Character Today Wish Interest Interesting Rooms Rounds Shoulders Ashamed Interesting Characters Best Wishes

Book:David Copperfield: Classic English Literature

Source: David Copperfield: Classic English Literature

“When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.”

“Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to be a part of a vision that I love, or a script that I love. I find exciting and gratifying.”

Sometimes Character Film Interest Vision Exciting Scripts

Author:Elijah Wood

“The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.”

“Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.”

Character Passion Interest Depends Prejudice

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.”

Source: A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America: with a view to the improvement of country residences

“As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.”

Children Book Character Form Reading Interest Degrees Mark Forgotten Clay Contributing

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.”

Character Government Political Passion Interest Degrees Fundamentals Impulse Acquire Sentiments Maxims Solemn Free Government

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.”

Humans Character Light Universe Interest Hell Dog Succeed Dirt Sweetness Mud Simplification Ulysses Inverted

Author:E. M. Forster

“You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.”

People Want Giving Character Political Social Interest Situation Novel Messages Prize

Author:John Irving

“I deal in a very artistic way of what interests me and marks my passion, and I try to - whether its good or not - am in love with acting and the stage and characters and the ability to reach and to touch people, so that's where, I guess, that's where my heart will reside, by and large.”

People Way Trying Heart Character Passion Interest Ability Deals Acting Stage My Heart Mark Artistic My Passion

Author:Angela Bassett

“I'm always intrigued by new challenges and things that I've never done before and new experiences. It sounds so simple, but the primary interest is just something that's good and instills within me some kind of gut feeling that feels like something that I'm passionate and excited about, and there can be multiple variables that can instill that. It can be simply a filmmaker, it can just be a character, it can just be the script, or a combination of all those things. But, I'm always just looking to do things that I've never done before, primarily.”

“What I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like People and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.”

People World Trying Kind Different Character Interest Love Is Interesting Findings Scripts Magazines Different Worlds Portraying

Author:Alex Pettyfer

“Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.”

World Has Beens Self Character Political Politics Term Interest Connected Deceived Suspicious Self Interest Term Limits

Book:THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.”

Mind I Can Character Spirit Interest Judging Reader

Author:Adam Haslett

“I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social problems that interest me, and that I can obsess over for a while.”

I Can Character Problem Social Sex Interest Interesting Psychology Bigger Developing Social Problems

Author:Mora Stephens

“It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.”

Source: Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.

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