We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret,… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I support the higher moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to. — Gina Haspel Copy Share Image
When I left Bristol City for Palace, I just wanted to be playing football. I didn't care about the money I was… — Yannick Bolasie Copy Share Image
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
My strategy to show caricature idea of American youth culture, which I think worked after talking about it for so many years,… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?” — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
We always joke now like, you know, the more experienced we get making stuff, we're like, "Never leave set without a shot… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
I use voiceover just like I use dialogue. There's a way to give out information or give out insight to the character… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind.… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time. — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth.… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas Copy Share Image
Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think… — James Franco Copy Share Image
For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has many ads about Hillary Clinton's character and it's fair to look at both. — Matt Schlapp Copy Share Image
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
I've wrestled just about everybody there is to wrestle, done just about every character reincarnation that I can come up with. — Goldust Copy Share Image
A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living,… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Copy Share Image
The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
