Character Quotes · Page 274

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

— Stephen L. Richards

Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy.

— Hilary Duff

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the…

— Marcus Aurelius

What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?

— Gene Wilder

We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room

— David Blatt

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

— Ioan Gruffudd

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

— Benjamin Franklin

I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.

— Roberta Williams

If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are…

— Kim Cattrall

I like to create a character where you believe, deep down, that they don't really care if they live or die. That's…

— Steven Knight

Kurt Russell is the guy you know. He's not something out of a weight-lifting magazine or a cartoon character. The closest thing…

— Dean Devlin

The way I saw the characters these things just happened naturally. At the same time - and I know it's probably not…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in…

— Norman Lock

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't…

— Guy Verhofstadt

Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they…

— Felicity Jones

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in…

— Amanda Peterson

There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a…

— Lance Armstrong

“How did you act when all was not good? Did you rise to the challenge? Did you display grit, resilience, and integrity…

— Bill Courtney

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how…

— John Steinbeck

I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the…

— Joshua Ferris

Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a…

— Jerome Lawrence

The fun thing we get to do is mess around playing all sorts of different people. People that really existed, people that…

— Thomas Brodie-Sangster

God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Joss Whedon, he is really hands-on, and he wants every character to have a life on and off screen.

— Cobie Smulders

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

— Leon Kass

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

— Rebecca West

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

— David Gergen

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

— Ayn Rand

God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

— Tommy Tenney

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.

— Thomas Chalmers

I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply.

— Holly Hunter

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

— Charles R. Swindoll

I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.

— Asa Butterfield

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

— Albert Einstein

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand

— Kathleen Turner

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

— Berenice Bejo

“When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.”

— Steven D. Levitt

If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.

— Gerald R. Ford