for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.
Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.
I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.
Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.
Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.
I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father - when I'm impatient. It's very charming.
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way.
I met Amy Winehouse a few times and she was always funny, charming and self-deprecating - just a delight to be around.
Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.
To make a movie charming, you have to be playful on all levels and open to ideas, and you have to have an idea for how to do that within the confines of the shooting schedule and editing and all that.
You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.
If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.
I think part of what made the original 'Sufferfest' charming was the extremely low production value. It was all shaky handheld footage from Cedar.
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
I'm a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
Now I can tell you something dirty.
I like men who have a foot fetish.
I absolutely think it's the most charming thing.
It's just so romantic.
And in their motions harmony divine
So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear
Listens delighted.
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.
Donald [Trump] is a charming person. He can be fun. He can make you laugh. But he can turn on you. And get nasty and personal and vicious.
Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?
Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love.
I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.
Other people's traditions look charming and decorative and exotic. They're nice places to visit on holiday, but you wouldn't want to live with one.
Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.
People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.
Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.
He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.
We've always wanted to do things with kids with the surprise element that we do with celebrities, because their reactions are fantastic and sweet and charming and lovely.
People say I'm charming, but I'm uneasy with that word. Quentin Crisp said: 'Charisma is the ability to influence without logic,' which is terrifying.
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.
One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.
I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.
I defy anyone to watch interviews with Ted Bundy and not be taken by him. He was very handsome and charming and extremely intelligent and, you know, that can exist.
Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.
We have such a loyal following in London that we decided to open a shop, and I find Albemarle Street extremely charming and special.
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.
The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.
People ask what it's like playing Prince Charming, but it's not something you really think about when you go to work.
A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
He's a very natural chap. The public David Essex is the same as the private one. He's laid-back, charming, funny. There's no side to him.
I really like living in London. It is a charming city, where everything happens and there is lots to do. There is a very good quality of life here.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.
I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.
My dad was a quiet assassin. He was really charming and smiley and softly spoken, but he could knock you out in a second.
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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