Character Quotes · Page 212

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what…

— H. L. Mencken

“We are part of someone’s story, not just the main character in our own.”

— Zara Hairston

I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.

— Patrick Fischler

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

— Jimmy Swaggart

A fellow can—t keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

— Olivia Williams

If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.

— Olivia Cooke

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

— John C. Maxwell

People may destroy my image and stain my personality but they can never take away my character, because no matter how bad…

— Mega

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they…

— Anne Frank

I think you've really got to cling to what makes sense to you. Obviously, I'm not a serial murderer in my real…

— Jamie Dornan

I really felt good after working in a film like 'Piku,' as many people could relate to my character. I got letters…

— Amitabh Bachchan

When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I…

— Heidi Julavits

A guy like Ric Flair at 49 could go out and do his character. A guy 49 going out and doing Goldberg…

— Bill Goldberg

Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem…

— Kieron Gillen

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I…

— Theodore Parker

Though I am never exactly "blocked" I do have difficult periods. I am led by a fascination with material - the challenge…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth…

— Dallas Willard

'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other…

— Tatiana Maslany

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the…

— Walter Bagehot

When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep.…

— Carson Grant

“it appears that my bourgeois education inculcated hopelessly false notions of taste and morality, and along with them the pressing need to…

— Elizabeth Mavor

Heterosexual women ask questions that are a lot to do with what I did to my body and what that was like…

— Robin Weigert

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

— George R. R. Martin

“Whatever character you give your children shall be their future.”

— Steve William Laible

I've kept evolving the character. At first, you hated Goldust with a passion, then you laughed with him.

— Goldust

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If I am not playing the villain then I'll play the friend, or the brother who dies in the third reel.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

My job was to play my character in the best way that I could, and hopefully people will enjoy that.

— Sean Hayes

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics.

— Mark Waid

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am definitely a lot more girly that the characters that I play.

— Katee Sackhoff

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

— Hunter Tylo

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

— Anson Mount

Angels are not from heaven,our sincerity towards others will show the angels around us.

— Sumesh Nair

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

— Laurell K. Hamilton