Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.
John Stuart MillTags: innocence morality abstinence characteristics commandments nobleness paganism precepts reaction
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
Zig ZiglarTags: people characteristics fat narrow-minded
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: sherlock-holmes detection facts characteristics detectives obviousness attributes
The boundaries of this world are forever shifting – from day to night, joy to sorrow, love to hate, and from life itself to death; and who can say at what moment we may suddenly cross over the border, from one state of existence to another, like heat applied to some flammable substance? I have been given my own ever-changing margins, across which I move, continually and hungrily, like a migrating animal. Now civilized, now untamed; now responsive to decency and human concern, now viciously attuned to the darkest of desires.
Michael CoxTags: change character definition characteristics boundaries margins alteration
Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.
Marc PamittanTags: life reality stars characters characteristics movie starstruck
At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in the way you hold your body, in the way you sign your name. You don't hear his whisper in your blood.
Salman RushdieTags: family parents characteristics fathers genetics traits
He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He had a look of wariness, which could change when he felt relaxed or happy, which was not often in these difficult days, into a smile of amused friendliness and pleasure which aroused feelings of warmth, and something more, in many women.
A.S. ByattTags: prose characteristics description character-development character-description
Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.
Sorin SuciuTags: humor laughter characteristics intellect intellectual jokes geek-humor geek
She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved.
Jane AustenTags: talent motivation character effort characteristics description
Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
Hermann BondiTags: humanity atheism characteristics division together one tribalism bind human-characteristics religious-division unison
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