It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things. — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw. — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a… — Famke Janssen Copy Share Image
“It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Every circumstance gives us a chance to develop our character.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Individual character involves honoring and embracing certain core ethical values; honesty, respect, responsibility . . . Parents must teach their children from… — Bill Clinton Copy Share Image
Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get… — Ryan Cabrera Copy Share Image
“You're going to meet people in this world who are fine, quality people. They'll build your character, and you want to hang… — Ruthi Postow Birch Copy Share Image
Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a… — Jean Stapleton Copy Share Image
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
For me, it's not about the size of the role. It's about the film-maker, script and character. — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Before sex.. you help each other get naked, after sex you only dress yourself. Moral of the story: in life no one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done. — Bruce McCulloch Copy Share Image
I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So,… — Ksenia Solo Copy Share Image
Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death. — Peter Milligan Copy Share Image
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
If you normally go quiet when you get angry, you may not relate to a character that reacts very differently. But if… — Jaideep Ahlawat Copy Share Image
I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“waste is the highest virtue one can achieve in an advanced capitalist society” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This is why every actor wants to get a script - they want to see what the arc of the character is. — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of… — Tahar Rahim Copy Share Image
