"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else."

-- Thomas Carlyle

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record.”
“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
“We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.”

Source : "Gingrich and Limbaugh: Poor Privileged White Men Grappling with Sotomayor" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2009.
“I was raised in the church.”
“You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.”

Source : Susan Jeffers (2017). “Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway”, p.39, Random House
“I have always questioned the status of the body in our society. I have always been working on social, political, cultural and religious pressures, which prints them in the flesh and in particular in women's flesh.”
“I don't want to be known for anything other than the fact that I play characters in movies.”
“In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.”

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