Character Quotes · Page 53

... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a…

— Milan Kundera

“Loving your enemy. Doing good things for evil people. Never taking vengeance. Responding to violence with nonviolent love—even if it brings suffering.…

— Preston Sprinkle

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

— Saul Bellow

You show your character through the good times and the bad times and for me it's just about being professional.

— Jared Dudley

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character…

— Ted Baillieu

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I love Helena Bonham Carter because every character that she portrays, she's just something completely different. And she has that quirky factor…

— Lily Collins

“Ours is a visual world with citizens who delight in those who appear good or gifted or great. Thus, we find it…

— Rick Rigsby

The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame…

— Nhat Hanh

The thing that I like about Pee-wee is it can exist on the level of midnight college cult movies that the hip…

— Paul Rust

Morality is essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate. But, biologically at least, we only evolved to cooperate…

— Joshua Greene

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where…

— Neil LaBute

Every actor, I don't care what they say, their roles are a lot more interesting than we are, and at the end…

— Moon Bloodgood

A person of strong character is willing to be modest,humble & true to self. He strives to remain committed to his endeavour…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they're coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up…

— Eric McCormack

I want to present a really interesting vision of [Jack] Kirby's characters and environments, as well as dig way, way deeper into…

— Sterling Gates

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to…

— Judy Blume

I don't think I could last in anything for 10 years doing a character.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Don't envy anybody. Every person has something no one else has. Develop that one thing in yourself, and make it outstanding!

— Anonymous

“If you give evil nothing to oppose, then virtue will return by itself.”

— Lao Tzu

When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a…

— Chris Thomas King

“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true,…

— Thomas Paine

Character matters most. It will outlast physical beauty, athleticism, intelligence, and since you can't take it with you, prosperity.

— Rock Cowles