Character Quotes · Page 184

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

— Philip Neri

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

— Yukio Mishima

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

— Marcus Aurelius

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

— Tim Gunn

“A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character”

— Thomas Jefferson

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

— Noah Hawley

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of…

— Adrian Tomine

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of…

— Mary Collyer

If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay…

— Sally Field

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their…

— Shelby Lynne

We owe it to the audience to put more characters onscreen that reflect them and that speak to issues of race and…

— Nina Jacobson

I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don't think…

— Inbar Lavi

I know there are a lot of people who like to get very involved in their characters, but I, personally, find it…

— Henry Cavill

Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt…

— E. M. Forster

There have been number of films that have been made with Mumbai as a backdrop or a character. 'Company,' 'Life In A…

— Chunky Pandey

Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be…

— Anonymous

If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to…

— Wallace Shawn

“Whatever may be his [man's] true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution (change…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“In the world of The Age of Innocence , a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the…

— Wendy Wasserstein

Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are…

— Edmund Burke

The Lord Jesus himself proclaims, 'This is My Body.' Before the blessing of the heavenly words something of another character is spoken…

— Ambrose

...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at…

— Greg Rucka

“Before I start a film or a play, I try to build a world in my mind. An imaginative world which the…

— Tom Hiddleston

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

— Joseph Pulitzer

“He's the navigator, he could probably find you a route to Hawaii underwater.”

— Jocelyn White

Never let people walk over you in life, never let anyone judge you and never let anyone destroy your character.

— Rob J Lloyd

Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

— Carl F. H. Henry

I've always done character roles and tons of movies as the so-called star, but I always felt I was one of the…

— Valerie Harper

Deadpool would have been an amazing character to play, but Ryan Reynolds already did that.

— Zachary Levi

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

— Christopher Hitchens

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

— Jean Louisa Kelly

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

— Anonymous

I worked very hard playing Arjun, and I was consumed by the character.

— Shaheer Sheikh

A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.

— Woody Allen

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

— Grant Bowler

“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.”

— Oscar Wilde

See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

— Confucius

Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

— Roxane Gay

Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.

— Charles Darwin