The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass, and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal… — J.M. Smith Copy Share Image
I gotta say, Pluto is such a great character, and if I ever got to work with him, I'd be very happy.… — Bob Peterson Copy Share Image
“The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I prefer to channel my problems and inner demons through a character. Another persona. That protects me and my family. I can… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
I used to be surprised and a little annoyed when characters would reappear in my mind, itching to be in another story.… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I regret nothing in my life, even though it has been full of pain and hurt. I look back with a smile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
I never wanted there to be any moment in my movies when something would happen and the audience would cheer, like sometimes… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To be honest, I would have to say that there was a certain burden in working with Arnold, a big action star.… — Kim Jee-woon Copy Share Image
There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go… — Carice van Houten Copy Share Image
The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Science does not stand as a moral guardian of humanity, rather it attempts to stand as the least subjective, least biased and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's fun to get to play a lead character that goes all the way through and drives the storyline and makes the… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Premier League is one of the best in the world, without a doubt. The stadiums are always full, and the atmosphere… — Robinho Copy Share Image
“The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us… — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage.… — Alix Smith Copy Share Image
Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously,… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When I started my career on TV, I never knew how my role or character was going to shape up or turn… — Neeru Bajwa Copy Share Image
As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made as to… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring,… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
I like to keep a broad scope and read lots of different things with lots of different types of characters. Doing that… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues. — George Will Copy Share Image
Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream… — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
