Character Quotes · Page 282

“By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to…

— C.S. Lewis

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his…

— Saint John Chrysostom

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

— George Jean Nathan

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

— David O. McKay

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right…

— Alice Hoffman

I don't believe in moral victories. I don't think in pro ball they exist, and they shouldn't exist.

— Jason Witten

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

— Donald Miller

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you cant practice any other virtue consistently.

— Anonymous

Welcome to the decline of America where, in six short decades, we have gone from aspiring to judge a man by the…

— Will Cain

If I am offered a character that demands me to go bald, I would definitely give it a thought. I love my…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and…

— William Shakespeare

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared…

— Iain Pears

I always learn from my co-actor and give my hundred per cent to my character. It's totally teamwork which makes not only…

— Sanjay Mishra

Vince was so great at the 'Mr. McMahon' character that some people think he wouldn't want to help people in real life,…

— Jim Ross

I grew up watching 'Magnum, P.I.' and shows like that, where you could develop a character over eight seasons, with stories along…

— Jonathan Nolan

“It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.”

— Ben Thompson

There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out,…

— Natalie Zea

I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a…

— Paul Auster

Trying to understand, inside, what it is to be Ugandan was crucial to the character, because there are Ugandan ways of doing…

— Forest Whitaker

Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters…

— Karan Bajaj

“What the new morality resolves itself into is this: You are wrong if you do a thing you do not feel like…

— Fulton J. Sheen

It was tough to not be judgmental of a person like Harshad Mehta. But that's where the training of an actor comes…

— Pratik Gandhi

If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then…

— Terry Pratchett

As a matter of fact it wasn't until after BIG passed and stupid rumors went around that I had something to do…

— DJ Quik

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.

— Daniel Schacter

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

— Maria Montessori

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

— Henry David Thoreau

Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty!

— Aaron Chan

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

— William Wilberforce

“The only class I'm interested in, is the class of character, determined not by blood or money, but by intent and behavior.”

— Abhijit Naskar

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

— William Shakespeare

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.

— Noel Gallagher

A person's bad attitude towards you is not a reflection of your character but a reflection of theirs.

— Rashida Rowe

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

— Bill Pullman

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

— Jeanne Moreau

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

— Tom Clancy

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?”

— George Eliot

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

— Mary Russell Mitford