Character Quotes · Page 292

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is.

— Amanda Hearst

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

— Lydia Sigourney

It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

— Howard G. Hendricks

I've been in many bands and every time I try to be a character that's not me it has failed miserably.

— MO

I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

— Maxwell Caulfield

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

— Tracy Pollan

I've played a lot of villains, and I always feel slightly upset when people say, 'You were so bad!'

— Tony Goldwyn

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

— Grace Cavalieri

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the…

— Zig Ziglar

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the…

— Joan Van Ark

I'm not going to dwell on what someone has said if it doesn't affect my life. I think that attitude helps to…

— Fallon Sherrock

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on…

— Bertrand Russell

I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is…

— Jill Clayburgh

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a very savvy character. His drinking and carousing, his charisma and intelligence... the things he did in…

— Ron Cephas Jones

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the…

— David Bronstein

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not…

— Charles Colson

“On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean…

— C. S. Lewis

I'm very visual. So even for red carpets, I'll create mood boards. I love a good shared photo album and to tag…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled…

— Oscar Isaac

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow…

— Margot Asquith

I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad…

— Roald Dahl

All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and…

— Peter Singer

“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must…

— John Rawls

In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone…

— Brenton Thwaites

“Augustine wrote that humility is the source of all virtue, and pride the root of all evil.”

— Mel Starr

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

— Baron de Montesquieu

It's really exciting to get to be the main character of something.

— Noah Schnapp

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

— Thomas Carlyle

I get very invested in characters; it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it…

— Gail Simone

“On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

— Samuel Johnson

Your character may be judged by how much and how well you talk if you dont talk about yourself.

— Vikrant Parsai

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

— David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

— Tacitus

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

— Tacitus

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

— Charles Bukowski

“Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a “real” goodness.”

— James W Sire

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

— Kim Bodnia

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

— Arthur Quiller-Couch