Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I don't believe in moral victories. I don't think in pro ball they exist, and they shouldn't exist. — Jason Witten Copy Share Image
I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film. — Jodi Lyn O'Keefe Copy Share Image
Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world. — Daniel Schacter Copy Share Image
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you cant practice any other virtue consistently. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's always fun to play the bad guy, because you get a chance to do things that most people only think about… — Jamie Hector Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is greater than love, character is greater than beauty, humanity is greater than wealth, but nothing is greater than good relations. — Babloo Copy Share Image
My agent wanted me to audition for Dumbledore's character after Richard Harris died. I was asked if I would like to audition… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
So many times, you get a script and it says, "And then, the character cries," and you read the lines and think,… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
The whole realm of morality and ethics is something that has escaped the attention of women, by and large. And it needs… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“The Christian Journey is not just to a place "Heaven", it is also to a person "Jesus". Ephesians 4:13 says "Till we… — Kingsley Opuwari Manuel Copy Share Image
Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel. [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc,… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others;… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Dr. Okun. Who's named after a special-effects guy named Jeff Okun, who had done Stargate for Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, who… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song,… — Jack White Copy Share Image
If I'm not like my characters, I think just it's like a musician liking to play certain pieces of music rather than… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
If I'm trying to get into character and it's an emotional scene, I'll listen to depressing or really sad music. — Noah Schnapp Copy Share Image
You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours. — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters. — Ti West Copy Share Image
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was. — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
“Your respect for people does not mean you need them This is your morality, even if they do not deserve it.” — Waciny Laredj Copy Share Image
Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Your age doesn't define your maturity, your grades don't define your intellect, and rumors don't define who you are. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
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