Character Quotes · Page 251

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

— Confucius

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

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The character of Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' has some real dark sides, and Matt wasn't afraid to explore those.

— Jeffrey Klarik

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

— C. V. Wedgwood

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.

— Chris Hemsworth

As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.

— Holly Hunter

Rufio's a great iconic character for a certain generation and definitely something I'm always associated with, proud to be associated with which…

— Dante Basco

We are confronted primarily with a moral issuewhether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are…

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

That's the worst feeling in movies to me, when you feel it's this rote character that's just abiding like a computer to…

— Fred Hechinger

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in…

— Gabriel Byrne

You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that…

— Summer Glau

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue…

— Bret Stephens

I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true…

— Bill Watterson

“My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character…

— Ben Robertson

“Groups are capable of being as moral and inteligent as the individuals who form them; a crowd is chaotic, has no purpose…

— Aldous Huxley

Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers,…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever…

— Gary Gygax

Books are a really fun way to get yourself in a certain mindset or mood as an actress. Also, the way people…

— Emma Roberts

As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to…

— Benjamin Percy

Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow…

— Neal Stephenson

The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't…

— Brad Warner

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

— Peter Drucker

“we have smuggled in a misleadingly ‘ethical’ vocabulary to bolster our economic arguments,”

— Tony Judt

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

— Gunnar Myrdal

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

— Henry David Thoreau

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

— David Fincher

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do…

— Rollo May

I kind of am a villain, I guess. Like if you push me too far, you can see the villain side of…

— Larsa Pippen

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

— Kim Kardashian

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

— William S. Burroughs

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

— Michael Palmer

My character in 'Saaho' is completely contrasting to my character in 'Baahubali,' and I am quite excited about it.

— Prabhas

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

— Roger Scruton

We as actors ought to breathe life into a character and do it seamlessly to connect with the audiences.

— Tridha Choudhury

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

— Samuel Johnson

“A person’s character, I realize, is never black-and-white. There is so much gray.”

— Jessica Warman