#co

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat. ↗

— Rex Stout

#character #contrived #flat #round #she

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#could #everything #get #give #goes

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#comes #horizon #never #quarter #watch

Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#because #cameras #concentration #difficulty #full

Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#fields #forests #how #location #michael

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#already #always #because #coach #control

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#country #dumping #economic #face #i

At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada. ↗

— John Strachan

#church #circumstance #considered #corporation #era

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church. ↗

— John Strachan

#christian #church #converted #day #ever

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#constrained #discourse #during #government #how