Character Quotes · Page 348

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

— David Gergen

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

— Rebecca West

If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.

— Brian Azzarello

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

— Aristotle

If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.

— Gerald R. Ford

“When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

— Berenice Bejo

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

— Stephen L. Richards

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov…

— Orhan Pamuk

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for…

— Alan Moore

If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and…

— Dwayne Johnson

Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it…

— Sarah Waters

Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal…

— Rick Santorum

Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going…

— Albert Brooks

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty…

— George Crook

A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all…

— Richard Rohr

I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will…

— Christian Bale

You look at Kerry Washington on 'Scandal,' and a lot of the women on that show in general are very strong, and…

— Constance Zimmer

A radio play actually ended up being the first acting job I ever had. A lot of times when I'm on camera,…

— Virginia Madsen

If you're a musician, you create what you love and hope other people love it as well. Amongst musicians, the starting point…

— John Bishop

I'm more interested in talking about what I do. And I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never…

— Willem Dafoe

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains…

— Anonymous

Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character…

— Laurette Taylor

Any script, even like The Founder, if it's something that I imagine myself playing this character or that character - any of…

— Jeremy Renner

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

— Sheryl Lee

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

— Ben Jonson

I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very…

— Paul Dini

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

— Russell D. Moore

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

— Epicurus

I like to think of characters in relation to other cinematic characters.

— Leslye Headland

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

— Leon Kass

Joss Whedon, he is really hands-on, and he wants every character to have a life on and off screen.

— Cobie Smulders

I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.

— Roberta Williams

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

— Ioan Gruffudd

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

— Benjamin Franklin

We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room

— David Blatt

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the…

— Marcus Aurelius

What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?

— Gene Wilder

Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy.

— Hilary Duff

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

— James Hillman