All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
“[...] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
You could imagine writing about a prostitute, for instance, but if you haven't spent time with prostitutes then you're going to get… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" . . . Know, O man, that the covenant… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
The realisation that all things that society gives us is an illusion is the only way to free yourself from the tribe.… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“I have always believed that character is destiny, that if you know someone's true character, you can pretty much map out how… — David Lozell Martin Copy Share Image
I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to… — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When you're doing a movie, you're in and out of there in three months. If you hated the experience, it's all good… — Jordana Brewster Copy Share Image
I knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extremely selfish and… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“To the Dalai Lama, suffering and adversity are the necessary conditions for developing patience and tolerance. These qualities are vital if we… — Victor Chan Copy Share Image
I'm such a product of my media diet... it's interesting that you say what I do is observational. It's observational as far… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
I was feeling like I'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. I don't believe… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
When it's all said and done, I'm very, very glad to work in this business, but that's exactly what it is. It's… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is ‘fat’… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to… — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind:… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
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