Character Quotes · Page 259

It's what you do during and after your trials that builds character.

— Porsha Williams

His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity…

— John Bartholomew Gough

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

— Anonymous

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.

— Julie Delpy

“It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

— George Eliot

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

— Melissa de la Cruz

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

— David McCullough

The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on…

— Andrew Lam

Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I…

— Chinua Achebe

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you…

— George W. Bush

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics…

— Joss Whedon

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two…

— John Green

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be…

— Johnathon Schaech

“The moral dilemma that the little mermaid must confront - that she can only live by killing the one she loves -…

— Rod Dubey

I think the love scenes are very powerful and they're not trying to simply show the bodies of the actors but trying…

— Tony Leung Chiu Wai

As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Not a specific song. What I do maybe love above all about Nick Cave is how he's created this universe, this world,…

— Mirel Wagner

The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The…

— Noah Webster

“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us…

— Walter Brueggemann

The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast…

— Jonathan Evison

The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

[Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be…

— Philippe Halsman

“Hence we see the emptiness of all those rhapsodies of commonplace morality, which consist in the taking of such names as lust,…

— Jeremy Bentham

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

— Steve Buscemi

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

— Doris Lessing

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

— Charles Spurgeon

Character is like a pregnancy, you can never hide it no matter what you do.

— Latest

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

— Fawn M. Brodie

LOVE, The only virtue that can be divided endlessly and still not be diminished;

— Nikhil Saluja

Once you actually book the role, you see that people have faith in your ability to portray the character.

— Ray Fisher

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

— Nithya Menen

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character…

— Aaron Paul

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

— Paul Newman

Defeating Human Trafficking is a great moral calling of our time

— Condoleezza Rice

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

— Burgess Meredith

Our reputation is shadow of our character, and the shadow is of our virtue and values which we inherit.

— Anil Sinha

“Character is less about what we do wrong And All about what we make right…”

— Navonne Johns