Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
I don't think it should matter to the American people what color skin is on their president. What should matter is the… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms --… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that. — Abigail Breslin Copy Share Image
Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from… — Zlatan Ibrahimovic Copy Share Image
Usually, in many films, only the hero's character is of importance, and the others may not be as significant. But in 'Kaala,'… — Rajinikanth Copy Share Image
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake, and if anything… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I like exploring, especially being and getting more comfortable with a character and in the space a character is always in. — Emily Bett Rickards Copy Share Image
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices. — Karen Gillan Copy Share Image
“When the superior man has free course with his principles, that is what we call his success; when such course is denied,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per… — Donald Sumpter Copy Share Image
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I'm very fortunate that I get asked to do very different kinds of roles and I realize how much I enjoy that.… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character. — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
I like characters that are fragile and a little bit on the edge . — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
When I got the script for 'The Art of Seduction,' I realised I'd never been in a comedy, so I decided to… — Son Ye-jin Copy Share Image
On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they… — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
