Character Quotes · Page 352

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” “Perhaps”

— Dalai Lama XIV

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The true character stands up when you are deeply tested by life...

— Anonymous

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

— V. S. Naipaul

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

— Ann Patchett

“The moral: Money, position, health, handsomeness, and talent aren’t everything.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

— John Ruskin

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is…

— Victor Hugo

Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing…

— Carrie Prejean

I think the first villain that I ever played was on 'Stargate'. I was this superior being that would take over a…

— Kevin Durand

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of thepeople who compose the nation; and that can be done only by…

— Anonymous

“To the best of my judgment, when I look at the human character I see no virtue placed there to counter justice.…

— Marcus Aurelius

This unthinking assumption of moral virtue on the Left is frustrating. I saw someone on Facebook talking about capitalist scum, he was…

— Richard Coles

I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime…

— Tea Leoni

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by…

— Karl Kraus

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications;…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

I kind of had to face the music at some point and say, 'All right, how do I engage with all of…

— Mike Faist

The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a…

— Jean Baudrillard

Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but…

— Edward Norton

I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters. Let's see. First on my list is Sam Gamgee from…

— Megan Chance

when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending…

— Michael Ondaatje

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring…

— Orison Swett Marden

If you're playing someone who has lived, there's the risk of imitation, or whether you focus on the essence of who that…

— Hayley Atwell

Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.

— David Thewlis

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

— Sharon Gless

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice…

— Vladimir Lenin

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Ability may take you to the top but it takes character to keep you there.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”

— Suzy Kassem

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

— Sri Chinmoy

“Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good”

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

— Charlotte Riley

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

— Andrew Young

My voice has a lot of character and kind of doesn't sound like a lot of people's.

— Kristian Bush

Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.

— Junior Seau

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

— George Washington

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.”

— Christopher Paolini

Your age doesn't define your maturity, your grades don't define your intellect, and rumors don't define who you are.

— Ritu Ghatourey