Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
For me, a lot of the humor comes not from innocence but from characters trying to figure out how to get what… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I just don't want to be bored. That's the only criteria I have when I choose a role to play. I like… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
“For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman Sachs is to educate him… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think… — André Brink Copy Share Image
Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste. — Joseph Chenier Copy Share Image
Persistence,patience & preservence are virtue of person with strong positive attitude. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
We need to be more grateful. I think there is no true character without gratitude. It is one of the marks of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There is only one Jose Mourinho. I have played under a lot of great coaches, but there is no other character in… — Samuel Eto'o Copy Share Image
I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In a modelling shoot you are trying to play a character, a role. There are models who are dead, who have no… — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema. — Kajol Copy Share Image
Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character… — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I am lucky to have got the character of Twinkle to make my debut. I not only learnt so much playing the… — Jasmin Bhasin Copy Share Image
I take all my characters very seriously - the main, secondary, and supporting characters. Even if they only appear once, they still… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
The pivotal scene in 'AK,' where Jackie Shroff 's character Singaperumal parades around his room in the buff, is a metaphor for… — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I auditioned specifically for Cyborg, but at the time, they were using a code name for the character... I think it was… — Ray Fisher Copy Share Image
