Character Quotes · Page 349

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

— Vincent de Paul

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

— John Lancaster Spalding

The Actual growth in a persons life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income…

— Anonymous

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

— John Lewis

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

— Seneca the Younger

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

— Anonymous

I've actually always wanted to play the character a bit 'off'. I think that could be fun.

— Christopher Sieber

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

— Richard Morris

He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young…

— Jess C Scott

It's my favorite movie score and because I had such a crush on Christopher Reeve. The music made me love him even…

— Petra Haden

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I…

— Brigham Young

“You think they are kind, that the Nephilim are kind, because they are good, but goodness is not kindness, and there is…

— Cassandra Clare

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I…

— Bruce Davison

When Calista Flockhart read for 'Ally McBeal', I saw this perfect chemistry between the words on the page and the person who…

— Dana Walden

People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as…

— Donald Margulies

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing…

— Anonymous

“Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of…

— John Adams

Improv is more than just spitting out a bunch of funny stuff that's unrelated to the material. You have to stay in…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“You know what's so cool about gaming? The whole collective consciousness thing! Like when you tap into your own knight in shinning…

— Devin Grayson

For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and…

— George Bancroft

I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic.…

— Lisa Edelstein

I just like voicing films in general. I do a lot of documentary work and it's a short hop really to narrating…

— Mark Strong

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

— Isaiah Washington

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I wouldn't want to be associated with one character, because I want to be able to do different roles.

— Bill Skarsgard

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

— Samuel Smiles

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

— Travis Beacham

I'd love to play Venom. I'm a huge 'Spider-Man' fan, and Venom was the character that drew me into the comics.

— Sheamus

Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

— Anonymous

That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.

— Rhys Darby

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

— Robert Redford

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

— Wilhelm Wundt

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

— Tacitus

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

— Socrates

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

— Grenville Kleiser

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

— Bertrand Russell

The reason why there are so many characters who suffer in my games is that I want to show reality.

— Yoko Taro

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

— Spike Jonze