“Two distinctive traits especially identify beyond a doubt a strong and dominant character. One trait is contempt for external circumstances, when one… — Cicero Copy Share Image
Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family,… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
In private life he was good-natured, chearful, social; inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. He had a coarse, strong wit,… — Philip Dormer Stanhope Copy Share Image
I don't ever feel a full transition to my character. I don't ever feel like I have left myself, because if I… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
A typical TV show is always about protecting the franchise - it's all about stretching it out as long as you can… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Of the Divine character of the Bible, I think, no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's… — Steve Camp Copy Share Image
When I first got my ring name as Carmella, I knew I was just going to do whatever I could to create… — Carmella Copy Share Image
“The Leftist worldview sees society’s and the world’s great battle as between rich and poor rather than between good and evil. Equality… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
To challenge the dominance of identity politics, we need to champion an alternative universalist approach. This wouldn't mean bland similarity, with everybody… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start… — Mike White Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed." "That… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
As a musician, I don't have one thing that's "my thing." I like to create, and have a lot of outlets for… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
[Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body.… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In the philosopher, conversely, there is nothing whatever that is impersonal;7 and above all, his morality bears decided and decisive witness to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“All of life’s unpleasant experiences – when we make fools of ourselves, act thoughtlessly, or lapse in our observance of some virtue… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The first time we ever lit up a suit was on Garrett. He was the first finished costume that we had, the… — Christine Bieselin Clark Copy Share Image
I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image