All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Men of action must be led by men of virtue, else there is no honor, merely chaos and barbarism.” — Curtis Craddock Copy Share Image
Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up. — Sadie Robertson Copy Share Image
Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis. — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. — Paul Bert Copy Share Image
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
I would experiment with porridge - make porridge pancakes, fry porridge - and so friends started calling me 'Porridge.' But I got… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. The more fantastical characters, or fantastical worlds that they inhabit are really… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I know that me personally I'm different than anyone else, just like our mothers all tell us we're all very special and… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend! — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
“A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Your mind is your best friend, your deeds are what you speak with him-think right, think good! — Selvaraj Kuppannan Copy Share Image
Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in. — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
Playing a character is like compressing an entire life into a few lines - that isn't an easy task. — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween. — Ron Kuby Copy Share Image
It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.” — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary. — Nicole Nielsen Horanyi Copy Share Image
The character of Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' has some real dark sides, and Matt wasn't afraid to explore those. — Jeffrey Klarik Copy Share Image
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
If somebody has no sense of humor, I think that's a great place to start for British comedy in terms of your… — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain. — Chris Hemsworth Copy Share Image
