Character Quotes · Page 228

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

— St. Catherine of Siena

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

— Samuel Johnson

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

— Douglas Hurd

When I prepare for a role, I try to get inside the character's head and understand him.

— Aamir Khan

They cast me away.Away with dismay Outcast in so many ways.Brutally discriminated by their against.

— Louaiq8

“Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.”

— Elizabeth George

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

— Thomas Jefferson

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

— Chuck Palahniuk

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in…

— Ryan Reynolds

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're…

— Hugo Weaving

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is…

— Steven Levitan

The image by Barry Blitt of Barack Obama and Michelle in the White House with him dressed as a terrorist, her dressed…

— Francoise Mouly

You have to look for story. That's obvious. If that's not on the page, you can forget it. But I also read…

— Liam Cunningham

A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any…

— Randy Wayne White

Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to…

— Felicia Day

The best writers are gravitating to that world. What's rewarding also is this: you have a two hour movie, you can't really…

— Lauren Shuler Donner

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s…

— Anonymous

“An essential virtue is humility. … The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance…

— David O. McKay

“Everybody knew that men have no morals, that they do not know how to behave, that they do not know how to…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender…

— Abhijit Naskar

To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to…

— Alan Dershowitz

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and…

— Aristotle

My character was a homogenization of various things, whether it be the attitude of a Bruiser Brody, or the look of Nikita…

— Bill Goldberg

The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a…

— Patrick Duffy

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

— Denis Diderot

“the character of the person would outweigh the color of his skin and the reputation of his heritage.”

— R.A. Salvatore

Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.

— The-Dream

“Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind.”

— Damon Galgut

To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them with impunity

— François De La Rochefoucauld

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

— Donald Trump

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

— Charlotte Bronte

The content of your character will come from how you respond to your failures.

— Grace Helbig

I am a character actor and one of my characters just happens to be a loud, vulgar woman.

— Divine

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

— Anonymous

I think Batman is a great character in that he has a lot of internalization, and his heroics come from a dark…

— Jeremy Sisto

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

— Bruce McCulloch

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

— Simon N. Patten

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

— Wally Lamb