"Character is power."

-- Booker T. Washington

#Character Quotes

“I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.”
“I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.”

Source : "Alec Issigonis Dies; Auto Designer, 81, Introduced the Mini" by Constance L. Hays, www.nytimes.com. 1988.
“New York is like that perfect lover that just won't commit but he's so good that you hang around anyway, NYC is dreamy!”
“The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.”

Source : J. Michael BISHOP (2004). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.12, Harvard University Press
“How can you begin to uncover whether gluten sensitivity is causing some of your health issues? Symptoms occur shortly after eating gluten and improve or disappear within hours or days after gluten is withdrawn. Symptoms return again if gluten is reintroduced.”
“I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.”
“By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.”
“In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.”

Source : Charles Evans Hughes (2000). “The Supreme Court of the United States: Its Foundation, Methods and Achievements”, p.68, Beard Books

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