Character Quotes · Page 238

A part of the bigger picture is much more interesting to me than just bringing attention or focus on myself or my…

— Eliza Scanlen

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.

— Meryl Streep

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

— Anson Mount

Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

— ElRay L. Christiansen

Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness

— Confucius

I believe that, in order for us to be successful, we need not to be SELFISH, but to share. That can take…

— Anonymous

I've always kept my dignity, my morals and my perspective because God always had my back.

— Keyshia Cole

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for…

— August Strindberg

If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it. The idea of the straight…

— Will Arnett

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange…

— Marketa Irglova

I want to be in control of drafting at least 80% the timing and cohesiveness of character and narrative. I want to…

— Saschka Unseld

Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because…

— Robert Conrad

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the…

— Michel de Montaigne

Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different…

— Darren Aronofsky

With acting, it's all about internalizing the character for me and doing all the preparation you can. So the day you first…

— Donnie Wahlberg

“Among the conventional adab anthologies, we encounter a somewhat different organization of the traditional material in the Kitâb Adab ad- dunyâ wa-d-dîn…

— Franz Rosenthal

The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain…

— Charles Darwin

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn…

— Joan Cusack

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. I love taking…

— Danny Boyle

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about…

— Alison Pill

I've really enjoyed the independent film world. I've had a blast. But, the reality is that I really want to make bigger…

— Matthew Lillard

This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence…

— Quentin S. Crisp

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

— Chuck Jones

I didn't want to do character roles because when you are doing comic characters, you only get character roles.

— Kiku Sharda

“I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

— Gautama Buddha

I find the character of Jarasandh, the King of Magadha, captivating and challenging since he was invincible.

— Puneet Issar

“[I]n speaking about someone's character, we do not say that he is wise or comprehending, but that he is gentle or moderate.”

— Aristotle

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

— Jesse Michaels

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

— David Levithan

“So not only do I have to go out and fight evil villains, I have to take up woodworking, too?”

— Mari Mancusi

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

— Gautama Buddha

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

— Jeff Koons

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

— Robert A. Heinlein

There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of…

— Howard Rheingold

Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

— Mason Cooley