“When you grow up surrounded by hate and despised, few are strong enough to cultivate kindness and to not pay that hate… — J.W. Meyer Copy Share Image
Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness. — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
The deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away. It's more challenging to me,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live,… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and… — Caroline Dhavernas Copy Share Image
The thing I liked most about 'Lois & Clark,' we were a fun show. Some of the later 'Superman' stuff is so… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse. — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings… — Peter Cullen Copy Share Image
I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
“In Christianity … morality is even made the criterion of piety; but ethics have nevertheless a subordinate rank, they have not in… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can ake over as they develop and change the author's original ideas.… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money. — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You… — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
“No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.” — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“First are those which free us from the strongest passions: laziness, love of comfort, sensuality, and pride. These virtues—fortitude, detachment, chastity, and… — Juan Luis Lorda Copy Share Image
Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“People will reveal themselves to you. In single moments they show you what they are.” — Travis Mulhauser Copy Share Image
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about… — Neal Pollack Copy Share Image
People with good intensions make promises but people with good characters keep them . — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
“art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both,and any attempt to align it with morality,… — Norhtrop Frye Copy Share Image
I often think of setting as an important character in my story. 'Dark Powers' takes place in Doncaster, a Maryland Eastern Shore… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own. — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes,… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If you ever have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you,that's signal to change the people around… — JOHNREYES Copy Share Image
I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the… — Steven Hatfill Copy Share Image
