“The reigning belief today is that closeness between persons is a moral good. The reigning aspiration today is to develop individual personality… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
With the quality of films it seems animation can do almost anything these days. It’s amazing what goes on. But for us… — Klay Hall Copy Share Image
“I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and… — Mz. Robinson Copy Share Image
The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
I would love to be on a show where I'm allowed to play a character that you're not suspicious of, from the… — Courtney Ford Copy Share Image
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor. — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Johnny Colt is a character, and most people in Lynyrd Skynyrd are characters, so he fits in great with us. He's got… — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The other two are rich and noble; examples of virtue rarely make their home among people like that.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
“All the dilemmas and questions of today were known in ethics more than 2,000 years ago. All the greatest teachers of mankind… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little… — Keren Woodward Copy Share Image
His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body,… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The men and women on death row have some combination of bad genes, bad parents, bad environments, and bad ideas (and the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I believe I am a character actor who likes to hide behind my characters. — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation,… — Thomas Horn Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him. — John Slattery Copy Share Image
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend! — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications. — Janice Raymond Copy Share Image
Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
