Character Quotes · Page 342

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

— Tim Howard

I grew up watching Scooby Doo and Thelma was my favourite character.

— MyAnna Buring

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

— Phillips Brooks

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

— Alphonse Karr

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

— Jamie Luner

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

— Dolly Parton

“the morality of capitalism, just like the morality of democracy, is rooted in consent.”

— Dinesh D'Souza

Of course, every city has its own character, but I enjoy coming to Delhi.

— Akshaye Khanna

“The reasons for slavery, wrote Gibbon Wakefield, “are not moral, but economical circumstances; they relate not to vice and virtue, but to…

— Eric Williams

“Everything we do in life reflects through the virtues of a nation. For example if a nation is ruled through Fear, the…

— Nynke Visser

I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York…

— Joe Manganiello

I don't have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I…

— Abbas Kiarostami

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or…

— H. P. Blavatsky

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I…

— Ruskin Bond

I've played myself before this ["Brent Spiner"] - and I've played myself since, for that matter - and playing yourself one of…

— Brent Spiner

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life.…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like…

— Elizabeth Wein

One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented…

— Richard Harmon

Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the…

— Peter Koestenbaum

Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which…

— Lord Chesterfield

I feel like there's a currency to your personal life and your performance - your acting, your work. If that personal life…

— Milo Ventimiglia

Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge…

— Orison Swett Marden

Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's…

— Terre Thaemlitz

You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of…

— William Samuel Johnson

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

— Harry Hamlin

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

— Oswald Chambers

Even my mom is calling me Shaggy now, which is weird, because Shaggy is more like a character that I play.

— Shaggy

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

— William Osler

“Poverty of character is not a personality flaw,its is the bankruptcy of morals”

— Bluenscottish

“My Son-in-law astutely observes that a Man’s sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases,”

— Diana Gabaldon

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

— Bayard Taylor

What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.

— Zig Ziglar

“What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.”

— Fernando Pessoa

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.

— Janice Raymond

I always wanted to do a web series where I play a negative character, or someone who's a druggie, or a spoilt…

— Riya Sen

Macklin, being Macklin, just took on a life of his own. I almost never use real people as models for my characters.

— James Patterson

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

— John Stuart Mill

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

— Carl Bernstein

My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

— Foxy Brown

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

— Albert Einstein