Character Quotes · Page 189

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

— Max Weber

To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.

— Roland Barthes

When you're losing that tends to kind of build the character of everybody together.

— Lou Williams

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

— Patrick Rothfuss

The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.

— Carl Jung

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that

— Amber Tamblyn

In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.

— Tom Landry

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way.…

— Paul Dini

My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that…

— Alyson Stoner

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His…

— Joyce Cary

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a…

— Herbert Hoover

It's one thing to be a comic book fan, but when you have to create a character and put him in a…

— Salim Akil

When a director from Hindi cinema is looking for an actor from another language, it will be only because he feels the…

— Rana Daggubati

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a…

— Karl Kraus

The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of…

— Roderick Murchison

Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do…

— Laozi

“There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and…

— John Dickson

I hope that if the people who read my work encounter people in the real world who are like the characters that…

— Jesmyn Ward

I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes…

— Lance Henriksen

I do think, in the future, headlamps are probably going to be smaller, slimmer. I also think that a lot of designers…

— Henrik Fisker

... the Apostle Paul says that we are sealed in the Spirit (cf. Eph. 1:13); since we have in the Son the…

— Ambrose

I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I…

— Jonathan Franzen

I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time."…

— Samuel Barnett

I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

— Kevin Spacey

The heroes that have everything together, they aren't very interesting at all.

— Joivan Wade

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

— Rodrigo Santoro

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

— Natasha Calis

“We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by.”

— R.A. Salvatore

Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

— Jim Loehr

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

— Albert Einstein

When you're playing someone who is angry and sad all the time, you get a little down.

— Scott Michael Foster

I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.

— Jeff Bennett

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I…

— Immanuel Kant

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

— Kenneth Tynan

I played Ram in 'Ramayan' for two years and I learnt to be a good human being from that character.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

“The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.”

— Loraine Despres

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

— Ben Stiller

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

— Christopher Hitchens

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

— Franz Grillparzer