I think most people don't really understand all that it takes to stand on your toes, and to be able to jump… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Being really likeable all the time is just not real life, so it's your duty to make a well-rounded character. — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell,… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage. — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
Aside from John Grisham, there isn't really anybody besides Tess that I've truly gotten into. But, I do like them. When I… — Sasha Alexander Copy Share Image
To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
I think in the inception and creation of the characters, improv was the most important part for me, because I wanted to… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I've noticed though that people will always assume you are the character you last played. I guess it's a compliment to playing… — Lisa Haydon Copy Share Image
“Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).” — Reid A. Ashbaucher Copy Share Image
It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.” — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all… — Robert Wade Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
What you really need to build a character is exactly what you don't have in the movies - time. You know, movies… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else. — George Marsden Copy Share Image
I get very invested in characters; it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and… — Lynn Redgrave Copy Share Image
In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character. — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
I can picture the character in my head, and the voice just comes out. — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, are constants in our character. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image