Character Quotes · Page 281

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

— Ron Fournier

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

— Dalai Lama

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character,…

— Vince Vaughn

“Develop your characters well enough that they do stupid things on their own.”

— Rebecca McKinsey

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

— Wes Borland

If you watch a movie, it never happens that you see a character that is in every single scene.

— Patrick Huard

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

— Dawn Powell

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

— Walter Scott

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means…

— Ayn Rand

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not.…

— Vanessa Lengies

I think one of the most important American films is 'Jackie Brown,' which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but…

— Arnaud Desplechin

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of…

— Napoleon Hill

Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the…

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek…

— Ralph Chaplin

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

— David Tang

It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss,…

— H. R. McMaster

“Where are the ethical concerns, that so many people called animal lovers invoke, when you steal the children of wild dog mothers…

— Günther Bloch

Virginia Mayo had kind of a small role in The Best Years of Our Lives, but you got the whole character in…

— Laura Dern

It sounds really corny but every film that you do is its own journey, it's its own experience, it's its own thing.…

— Sarah Gadon

It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans…

— Marianne Williamson

“intentions and results. Cooper’s intentions in killing Peters and releasing the video had been good; the results had been a disaster. Did…

— Marcus Sakey

Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? It's fun to play villains and…

— Megan Mullally

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in…

— Ayn Rand

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at…

— Cindy Sherman

My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

— Suge Knight

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

— George Holyoake

“The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.”

— Alfred Alcorn

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

— William Shakespeare

“He was a character. A character who should still be here. Damn it all to hell. He should still be here.”

— Lisa Schroeder

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

— John C. Maxwell

If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.

— Olivia Cooke

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

— George R. R. Martin

“Whatever character you give your children shall be their future.”

— Steve William Laible

“We are part of someone’s story, not just the main character in our own.”

— Zara Hairston

A fellow can—t keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

— Olivia Williams

I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

— Patrick Fischler

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

— Jimmy Swaggart