Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to… — William Atherton Copy Share Image
“Alice started to understand why people found her repulsive. In stories, anyone who didn't look quite right, who wasn't a perfect human… — Georgia Byng Copy Share Image
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
When you meet opposition to your faith, your first reaction may be anger toward your antagonist. This may divert your attention from… — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist. — Cung Le Copy Share Image
Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
