Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A conversa impregnada de vaidade e o pretensiosismo são raramente compatíveis com a virtude.” — Confucius Copy Share Image
Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing. — Brad Falchuk Copy Share Image
Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence. — Elie Saab Copy Share Image
If one evil eats at the moral fiber of human life in this world that could be termed as Mother of Evils,… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of… — Samuel George Morton Copy Share Image
An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is… — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut Copy Share Image
“Since both knowledge and virtue require the concept of transcendence, they are really obnoxious to those committed to material standards…” — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow,… — Nestor Carbonell Copy Share Image
Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I can sing every single word of Honky Tonk's theme song. He was great. He might not be that cruiserweight-style wrestler or… — Sean Waltman Copy Share Image
Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
“I suppose the true test of character comes when facing life’s harshest blows and disappointments. When things don’t turn out how you… — Allison Pataki Copy Share Image
I am not somebody who just likes to run. I am a runner. This is the difference between a pastime and a… — Adam Goucher Copy Share Image
A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these… — Richard Madden Copy Share Image
