Character Quotes · Page 360

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

— Tacitus

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

— David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

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

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

I'd be that James Bond character from the Beautyrest commercial that we did. Maybe some day.

— Tom Brady

The morality we all grew up with and are accustomed to is what feels right.

— Stephen Hillenburg

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

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

— James W Sire

I realized early on that it was important to have those values, a morality and ethics that come with being Southern girl.…

— Sarah Shahi

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in…

— Andy Serkis

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied…

— Steven Spielberg

There's two sides to Trump's character, at least his pre-presidential character. One was, 'I'm the richest man you could possibly imagine, I…

— David Fahrenthold

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

— Hilma Wolitzer

If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character…

— Olivia De Havilland

“God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal.”

— C.S. Lewis

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with…

— Naveen Andrews

We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange…

— Zack Snyder

How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at…

— Robert M. Pirsig

One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I'm a very positive person, that's something that's like my character Savannah. She's very positive in everything that she does and I'm…

— Ashley Tisdale

At 21, my career took a comedic turn when I was cast in a new Broadway play called 'Brooklyn Boy,' by Donald…

— Ari Graynor

“Obedience is not a virtue. I wanted to please everyone but myself, and I had to lose everything to learn that lesson.…

— Kathryn Wesley

The next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit…

— Rick Warren

You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do…

— Tom Cruise

“Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.”

— Vince Gill

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Fidelity is a bourgeois virtue and it exists only to exploit people and to obtain an economic gain”

— Diego Rivera

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

— Jane Haddam

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

— Keith Miller

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

— William Penn

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

— Barbara Mertz

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

— Llewelyn Powys

“Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible.”

— Aristotle

What we portray on the ice is really important to us, and we love getting into character and telling a story.

— Tessa Virtue

“My characters have a mind of their own. I'm just the vessel through which they speak.”

— Ginny Lynn Peebles

I feel it's important to show different sides of my character, and I never take myself too seriously.

— Carmella

You don't necessarily think that with a Disney prince that you're going to get to have a little bit of a character…

— Harris Dickinson

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

— Thomas Paine

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel…

— James Russell Lowell