Character Quotes · Page 375

Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

— Allen Lacy

It's definitely hard to say good-bye to a character that you've played for a long time.

— Paula Malcomson

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

— Dale Jamieson

“A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.”

— Randy Wayne White

Being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage

— Anonymous

Be a beautiful person with your attitude, your words and your behavior.

— Nishan Panwar

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

— Anne Lamott

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.

— America Ferrera

I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like…

— Calista Flockhart

I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to…

— Tao Lin

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A…

— Christopher Hitchens

It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.

— Ken Osmond

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to…

— Betty Smith

“Character is destiny. For the cronic do-gooder, the happy-go-lucky sociopath, the dysfunctional family, under the gun everyone diverts to who they are.…

— Mary McCormack

I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can…

— Lauren Mayberry

“When your heart overfloweth broad and full like the river, a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders: there is the origin…

— Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your…

— Gustave Flaubert

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock…

— Clive Cussler

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to…

— Juliet Marillier

On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand…

— Rosa Luxemburg

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that…

— Marco Rubio

As a kid, my brother and I would read the same novel, we'd memorize entire pages, reenact the book as it's characters,…

— Irena A. Hoffman

So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had…

— Don Hertzfeldt

Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method…

— Kevin Young

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

— Edward Gibbon

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

— Raoul Dufy

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

— Randy Quaid

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

— Virginia Wade

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

— Michel de Montaigne

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

— Charles Frazier

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

— Brendan Fehr

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

— Nick Saban

Were all born with the same size soul, everyone is born good. It's choices along the bumpy road of life that changes…

— Anonymous

When something has soul, it doesn't matter that the character is different from you.

— Shira Haas

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

— Marcello Mastroianni

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

— Remy de Gourmont

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

— Robert Cray

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

— David Antin