It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think some people can see you do a bizarre, crazy character online, and if maybe they don't get it, they'll be… — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
But being able to talk to so many patients from so many walks of life gives a tremendous window into people's lives.… — Daniel Mason Copy Share Image
A lot of people know me from my character that I play on 'Superstore,' Mateo, and I'm not interested in playing straight… — Nico Santos Copy Share Image
John McCain is simply a man of considerable character, poor guy. He is utterly bereft of cultural cachet. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
The election of Barack Obama was a very wonderful step forward for America, which has unfortunately been tainted by the ugly reaction… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I wouldn't know what to say about something that worked in a perfect way, so I guess, in everything, I try to… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals,… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
“Those with enlightened virtue please the people, those without enlightened virtue please themselves. Those who please the people grow, those who please… — Thomas Cleary Copy Share Image
I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
You want to be able to say [to Ethan Hawke's character], "Dude, it's okay," but maybe it's not. Maybe he's not a… — Ti West Copy Share Image
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Timothy McGee was unlike any character I had ever played before but I had a very clear idea of who he was. — Sean Murray Copy Share Image
I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
What you put into your children's heart today influences their character for tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to think of characters in relation to other cinematic characters. — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and… — Charity Shea Copy Share Image
Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
“Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pretty much all comic-book people, like all Hollywood people, for the most part, are pretty liberal. I think especially UK writers. Alan… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The reality is if you tell people something long enough, good or bad, they're going to believe it. And for a while… — Shawn Spears Copy Share Image
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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