You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action. — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
“And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me? — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the… — Ana Gasteyer Copy Share Image
When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
That worries me an awful lot. If people misunderstand our intentions [in Black Snake Moan], especially regarding my character, then they're essentially… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The object of the intellect is to light and lead the will on its path, and therefore, the greater the force, impetus… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Let us return to Benjamin Rush, who foresaw the revolutionary implications of Benjamin [Lay]'s philosophy. Writing after the abolitionist movement had burst… — The Fearless Benjamin Lay Marcus Rediker Copy Share Image
We have this saying, and it's been very useful when a series, 'The Mindy Project' goes for longer than a hundred episodes,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
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