Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
“He made a point of complimenting Lysistrara's brilliant handling of the rabies situation and thanking her for her generosity in the last… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. — Carl Barks Copy Share Image
There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals. — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Baltimore was never intended to be anything other than this original novel that Chris Golden and I did together. There was never… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to… — William Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I opened with Edward Kienholz's The Beanery, and that's such a controversial piece that I think that brought people right away. It… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
You can't just be the same character forever. You've got to add some layers, show some personality. — Drew McIntyre Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. — John Burns Copy Share Image
If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it's the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
“The virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
