Character Quotes · Page 263

Persistence, patience and perseverance are virtue of person with strong positive attitude.

— Anil Sinha

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

— Aristotle

What you have don't make you the better person your character does

— Ms Kee

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

— Milan Kundera

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

— Joseph Addison

I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.

— Marilynne Robinson

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

— Chester Gould

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

— Louis Kronenberger

It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I…

— Aaron Paul

I think some people can see you do a bizarre, crazy character online, and if maybe they don't get it, they'll be…

— Megan Stalter

“A beautiful woman is one with a beautiful heart. She may be covered with mud or sores but only her foot fit…

— Omoakhuana Anthonia

When I was a kid, I'd create my own movies at home. I'd record myself doing a scene, then stop the camera,…

— Meagan Tandy

I like to watch and perform the kind of comedy that comes out of the situation - where the character is really…

— Judge Reinhold

There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to…

— Anonymous

If a character is honest with a reader, then (hopefully) that will engage the reader's empathy centers; she'll meet that openness with…

— Joshua Mohr

In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers,…

— John Carpenter

People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in…

— Florence Nightingale

In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the…

— Laura Esquivel

When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character…

— Jamie Bamber

When I sat down with the creators of the show [Longmire], back when we were first starting to do the pilot, Branch…

— Bailey Chase

Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning,…

— Taylor Sheridan

The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter.…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

If you look at what we did with 'Winter Soldier' with the Cap character in terms of bringing him into the modern…

— Joe Russo

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

— William Shakespeare

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

— Lee Pace

The American system of checks and balances is only as strong as the leaders who have the character and courage to enforce…

— Neera Tanden

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

— G. Stanley Hall

I'm much nicer then all my characters, let's just put it that way.

— Constance Zimmer

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

— Henry David Thoreau

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

— Joan D. Chittister

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

— Ameen Rihani

Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag.

— Alex Gibney

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

— George W. Bush

I think about the character in any new offer that comes to me. Only if I like it do I go ahead…

— Regina Cassandra

My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.

— Lecrae

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

— Dylan McDermott

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

— Elizabeth Moon

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

— Barbara Bush