Character Quotes · Page 449

In your darkest night you will find your brightest Star. Tom Krause

— Tom Krause

We create hate because we choose to be intolerant over acceptance.

— Megan Bailey

It's cool to show different sides of myself and my character. I feel like not that many people get to do that.

— Carmella

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

— Berthold Auerbach

I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.

— Donald Sinden

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

— Anonymous

The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

— Kevin Spacey

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

— Joseph Addison

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave…

— Fran Lebowitz

I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further…

— Philip Kitcher

“Our ability to make moral judgements, decisions and choices is a pre-condition of human development in a free society. To deny that…

— Ann Furedi

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

— Saint Augustine

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power…

— Roger L'Estrange

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

"Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd…

— Hank Stuever

By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion…

— Bertrand Russell

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an…

— Anthony Burgess

“Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out…

— John Stuart Mill

“The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened,…

— Charlotte Mason

“Morality is a just a shadow of right action. Right action isn’t the highest degree of morality any more than agapè is…

— Jed McKenna

I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When…

— Sigourney Weaver

When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no…

— Idris Elba

I think hopefully as you're getting older you're getting parts that require more preparation, and by that I just mean - I…

— Miles Teller

The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's…

— Max Lucado

May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

— Paulo Coelho

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

— Annie Besant

I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213

— Sylvia Day

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet…

— David E. Kelley

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the…

— Anonymous

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

— Winston Churchill

“When in doubt, give a character big, blown-up eyes and puffy lips.”

— Stephan Pastis

Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you are the sort of character who likes to feel you are in a battle, then make sure you do that.

— Stuart Broad

Nothing can be better than playing a Maharashtrian character in a Rohit Shetty film.

— Sonu Sood

You want to play as much as possible, but I am not the type of character to go bursting walls down.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

— Joseph Addison

I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a…

— Susan Olsen

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

— Clive Barker

“There is something in the American character, traditionally, that yearns to see the status quo kicked in the ass.”

— Alec Cizak

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

— George Bernard Shaw