Character Quotes · Page 305

“Remember, adversity does not necessarily build character in a man—but it does reveal it.”

— Rick Johnson

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

— Francois Guizot

Maybe there's something in the Oregon character that pushed me into the kind of life that I took up.

— James Ivory

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

— G. Willow Wilson

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

— Brady Corbet

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

— Jonathan Swift

I want to explore myself and do various characters. That's what I understand and that's what gives me happiness.

— Sunil Grover

Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

If the story is insensitive to a person and is not nuanced enough, that's a story I don't want to be a…

— Rasika Dugal

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame…

— D. H. Lawrence

The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats…

— Jack Johnson

As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with…

— Matt Smith

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so…

— Timothy Keller

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just…

— Orlando Bloom

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

— Andrew Young

I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or…

— Irvine Welsh

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the…

— David C. Driskell

No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,…

— H. L. Mencken

My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to…

— Gene Wilder

After I quit being a lawyer in '95, I was having a lot of trouble writing. Then I read somewhere that Willa…

— Min Jin Lee

I like to mix the real and the imaginary. Sometimes it is characters inspired by real people I know or know of.…

— Dana Spiotta

Every one of us owes a debt to the people who have shaped our minds and influenced our thinking and very often…

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

— Ronald Reagan

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

— Monica Keena

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

— Jeff Cooper

For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why?

— Abraham Cowley

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

— Joan Van Ark

True caliber of a man could easily be known by what he says about others, not by what other say about him.

— Yasmine Tariq

Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.

— Robert H. Shaffer

If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.

— Bae Doona

Thank goodness for me, 'Smallville''s Lois Lane is younger, so there's a little bit of play with the character.

— Erica Durance

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

— Madame de Stael

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.

— John Maynard Keynes

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

— Dallas Willard

“Such a better world it would be if we all had the morals of a Golden Retriever; butt sniffing notwithstanding.”

— A.A. Bell

I want to play characters that are real, that have depth in them.

— Suniel Shetty

You can not get the best of life, getting the best of your life, that is a virtue

— DrMohammed Abad Alrazak