Character Quotes · Page 740

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is…

— Erich Fromm

“Of course we would all like to "believe" in something, like to assuage our private guilts in public causes, like to lose…

— Joan Didion

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

— George V

After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a…

— Charles Dickens

“Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

John Cena is John Cena - it's really not a character he is playing.

— Jeff Jarrett

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are…

— Josh Lucas

Being on 'House of Cards' really has given me so much more than just a job; the interactions I have had with…

— Constance Zimmer

“Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided,…

— Haruki Murakami

The challenge is always in portraying characters who've led a very different life from your's as you get to work on the…

— Ayesha Takia

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

— Dalai Lama

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

— Herbert Read

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

— Mario Puzo

While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have…

— Kate Crawford

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep…

— Charles Stross

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from…

— Carl Sagan

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish…

— Jason Isaacs

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

— Judith Martin

“The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.”

— St. Ambrose

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

— Alphonse Karr

I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is…

— Emily Browning

I used to watch 'Aliens', and I just found Sigourney Weaver's character so empowering.

— Katie Melua

Unless you're playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you're probably better off…

— Dolph Lundgren

Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids…

— Cressida Cowell

“The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do.”

— Multatuli

It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the…

— Joshua Reynolds

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had…

— Ben Daniels

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

— Edmund Burke

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that…

— Keira Knightley

I always keep my options open. I always say, "Make me an offer and send me the script, and if it's something…

— Corey Feldman

I was in character all the time when I was little.

— Allison Williams

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to…

— Jesse Williams

When you play an anti-hero, it is a task to make people empathise with your character.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

— Louis L'Amour

There's a real, brutal nature to the capitalism practiced by the main character in 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.'…

— Mohsin Hamid

I`m lucky in that in my character in hip hop is me. I`m Michael Render. My character is Killer Mike. But the…

— Killer Mike

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at…

— Rosario Dawson

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because…

— Berenice Bejo