Character Quotes · Page 231

It's always fun when you pick up a skill for a particular character.

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

— Judy Blume

Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

— Alan Ryan

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

— Steve Jobs

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

— Anonymous

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

— Verne Troyer

My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.

— Wentworth Miller

The length of the fabric on a girl's body, should never be the measurement of her character!!

— Ronakpanchalrr

I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general,…

— Joe Morton

You can have a great character in a really bad script, and the film will never be seen. It's just too much…

— Devin Ratray

Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for…

— Laozi

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality…

— Gillian Flynn

Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.

— Paul Molitor

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed…

— Samuel Johnson

“that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The highest virtue lies in self-learning or self-taught education. For it is the path that all the greatest men or those who…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Ethics and moralities cover a wide range of values. Such words might sound delightful to someone’s ears or make another feel a…

— Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let…

— Francis Quarles

You have to go as hard as you possibly can, or it's going to be weak. Whenever I find myself not committing…

— Lauren Lapkus

It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many…

— Calvin Coolidge

“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of…

— C.S. Lewis

It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's…

— Ben Miller

Being the bigger person means making a consious decision to behave at the height of ones character.

— Anonymous

Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.

— Ron Cephas Jones

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

— William James

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

— Toby Jones

If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act.

— Joan Chen

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

— Brian Tracy

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

— Piper Perabo

I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story.

— Rachel Weisz

Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

— Stephen Covey

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

— Aristotle

I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

— Keri Russell

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

— George Bernard Shaw

“He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle