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“I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.”

Thinking Men Character Would Be Turns Actors Character Actors Dashing

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.”

Ifs Men May Doe Wisdom Turns Peace

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.”

Men Two Matter Turns Left Party Issues Subjects Effects Poet Aspect Fortune Disappointment Various Versions Consideration Plumber

Author:Thomas Frank

“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Young Turns Men And Women Young Man

Author:Paul Auster

“I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.”

Ifs Thinking Men Turns Party Dresses Invisible Fancy Invited

Author:David Morrissey

“Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.”

Ifs Knows Men Sometimes Turns Wise

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.”

Knows Men Different Age Faces Turns Names Watches Study Patterns Wheels Wheel Of Time Many Faces Different Faces

Book:The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'

“A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.”

Men Way May Different Character Hands Might Spirit Turns Source Built Agony Fabric Humiliation Straws

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.”

Thinking Men Want Trying Jobs Turns Powerful Successful Danger Currents Formal New Job Formal Wear

Author:Peter York

“The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.”

Men Doe Earth Law Turns Causes Natural Sun Honor Bird Tradition Traps Natural Law

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.”

Men Writing Country Turns Stuff Ordinary Tales Like Me Rough Songwriting Soundtracks Working Man

Author:Jay Heinrichs

“Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid and the attainment of peace. It is now the turn of men to join women in their struggle for equality.”

Men Country Turns Struggle Words Of Wisdom Slavery Folks Liberation Colonialism Attainment Apartheid Abolition Abolition Of Slavery

Author:Gertrude Mongella

“March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.”

Men Desire Turns Fire Doors March

Author:David McCord

“No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Motivational Turns Advantage Regard Thyself

Author:Seneca the Younger

“At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.”

Thinking Men Firsts Heart Mean Two Turns Speak Force Voice Subjects Danger He Man Solitude Equal Approach Painful Pleasant Reasonable Yield Avoiding

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.”

Men Would Be Turns Advantage Accidents Great Men

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.”

Men May Turns Wise Fool Advantage Prejudice Accidents Fortunate Unfortunate

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.”

Men May Hands Care Turns Wealth White Break Rich Share Son Breaths Factories Bubbles Rich Man

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.”

Men Pain Turns Grief Fire Cures Burning Desperate Anguish Burn Out Giddy Languish

Book:CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet

Source: CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet

“Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.”

Men Giving Littles Soul Turns Madness Wine Spots Vanity Idiot Indifference Bitterness Display Resentment Assassins Deformity

Book:The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes

Source: The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes

“A wise man turns chance into good fortune.”

Men Turns Chance Business Wise Fortune Good Fortune Fortune And Luck

Author:Thomas Fuller