Character Quotes · Page 381

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

— Susan Estrich

I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty.

— Susan Ford

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

— Tommy Hilfiger

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

— J. William Schickel

I think every character that I play has a certain sort of tone or an energy level to them.

— Bill Skarsgard

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

— Orrin Woodward

We're dealing with character assassins. We're dealing with career assassins. That's who the media is today.

— Rush Limbaugh

I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go…

— Jim Parsons

We want to be able to let the audience get to know these folks. One of the things about The Avengers, over…

— Jeph Loeb

[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city…

— Karen Kijewski

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about…

— Rowan Atkinson

Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

— L. Todd Rose

Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When…

— Sigourney Weaver

“Morality is a just a shadow of right action. Right action isn’t the highest degree of morality any more than agapè is…

— Jed McKenna

“The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened,…

— Charlotte Mason

“Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out…

— John Stuart Mill

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an…

— Anthony Burgess

“Our decisions define our lives. We are the people we choose to be in the ways that most matter. Choose wisely. You…

— Vicki Hinze

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the…

— Joseph C. Lincoln

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian…

— Ronald Reagan

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and…

— Stephen King

You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are…

— Matt Lucas

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

— Alexander Pope

I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

— Vince Vaughn

Just As we Can Learn From Our Mistakes, We Can Gain Character From Our Disappointments.

— Anonymous

I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal…

— Robert M. Hensel

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

— Taylor Caldwell

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...

— Virginia Woolf

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

— Lin Yutang

“There is no effort in collecting judgements. Being wise with them requires an act of true character”

— Joel Kirkpatrick

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

— Aaron Eckhart

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

— George Packer

Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

— Peggy Noonan

All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.

— Johann Gottfried Seume

I always had a sense that clothes, be it uniform or vintage, could help to create a character.

— Collier Schorr