Character Quotes · Page 435

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

— William Hazlitt

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

— John Steinbeck

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals.

— Mahatma Ghandi

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in…

— Alan Rickman

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

— Paul Wellstone

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.

— Troy Deeney

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

— Julian McMahon

Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you…

— Nouman Ali Khan

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

— Randy Harrison

. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility…

— Suzanne La Follette

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's…

— David O. Russell

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what…

— William S. Burroughs

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get…

— Morris Chestnut

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be…

— Don Herold

The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and…

— Herman Melville

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and…

— Eric Clapton

Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a…

— Gus Van Sant

I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and…

— Pam Grier

People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the…

— David D. Burns

The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Each character I play I approach differently and separately. I think Marigold is a simpler character for a sweet little movie, and…

— Ali Larter

You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail…

— Michael Ondaatje

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

— Donna Tartt

The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.

— Nicholas Eberstadt

“All humans make mistakes. What determines our character is whether we turn those mistakes into excuses or lessons.”

— Colleen Hoover

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

— Rue McClanahan

You lose your repute the moment when you compare yourself with unworthy people.

— Vikrant Parsai

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

— Jerome Frank

It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed…

— Laura Bailey

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstandin g.

— Stephen Colbert

“I was beginning to think that Simon just had a bad case of OCD, ADD, and PMS. With a little BS and…

— Dannika Dark

“Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.”

— Stieg Larsson

In some ways I would like to be like Tyler, my character in the film.

— Robert Pattinson

“Morals are like assholes: gay men just want to fuck them with their hard, glistening cocks.”

— Pat Robertson

I appreciate being known as 'best character' rather than as the 'best bad guy.'

— Jim Sarbh

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

— Aristotle

I thought of the character being real, a living person, not a drawing.

— Ollie Johnston

“Some women don't care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the inside.”

— Shannon L. Alder