Character Quotes · Page 341

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through…

— William Morley Punshon

If you can't be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don't cheat.

— Jerry Springer

It's fun to be the subservient character who is too dumb to know when to stop trying to win against the awesome…

— Kyle Cassie

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

— Jonathan Swift

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

— Phyllis Bottome

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

— Lee Corso

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

— Andy Stanley

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

— James Allen

Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do…

— Jack Donovan

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are…

— Kieron Gillen

I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate…

— Cherien Dabis

It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which…

— Dani Shapiro

“One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of…

— Kakuzō Okakura

What you see in others, in the end it is reflected in yourself. If you see and admire goodness of other it…

— Anil Kumar Sinha

I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's…

— Victoria Pratt

Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and…

— Sara Gilbert

Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly…

— John Ralston Saul

If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,…

— Robert Hooke

“the moral worth of an action consists not in the consequences that flow from it, but in the intention from which the…

— Michael J. Sandel

Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a…

— Miroslav Penkov

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true!…

— David Mitchell

In 'ABCD1,' it was only me. The character I play has his own charisma. But In 'ABCD2,' the film has gotten bigger…

— Prabhu Deva

For me, water means a lot of things. It's my belief that human beings are just like plants. They can't live without…

— Tsai Ming-liang

The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

People will Hate you, Break you, Rate you, Shake you down, but how strong you stand makes you who you really are.

— Kings

I always pushed back on doing long-form. I imagined SpongeBob as being simple, and I wanted to concentrate on character humor.

— Stephen Hillenburg

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after…

— Gary D. Schmidt

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

— Erica Jong

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

— Heinrich Heine

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

— Don Herold

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

— Kelly Lynch

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

— Peter Mayhew

The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings.

— Blaise Pascal

People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.

— Natalie Portman

“Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it.”

— Daniel Habil

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

— Emma Donoghue

I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page.

— Akira Toriyama

I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

— Jill Scott

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

— Rachael Stirling

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

— Nic Pizzolatto