Character Quotes · Page 385

Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character.

— James K. Polk

I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.

— Cynthia Stevenson

“The superior person cultivates virtue by bringing about revolution within himself.”

— I Ching

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

— Anonymous

“This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.”

— Renee Fleming

I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.

— Laura Dern

“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.

— John Baldoni

There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or…

— John Frederick Boyes

I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that…

— Carol Kane

You can ask any Latin actor: inevitably, if they get a part meant for a white guy, producers will change the character's…

— Nicholas Gonzalez

What I like to do as an actor is transform. It's way more fun to play characters who are completely different than…

— Carrie Preston

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst…

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their…

— Thomas Jefferson

I was drawn to the story of Myeol-mang and Dong-kyeong. I wanted to understand and sympathize with the character Myeol-mang, whose being…

— Seo In-guk

If were were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a…

— Kerstin Gier

The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk…

— Rudolf Bultmann

You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less…

— Ryan Holiday

It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain…

— Howard Barker

I have to put my father over because he really taught me a lot, especially when it comes to out-of-the-ring psychology and…

— Randy Orton

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so…

— Samuel Adams

In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture,…

— Alexander Hamilton

“I don't approve of mixing ideologies," Ivanov continued. "There are only two conceptions of human ethics, and they are at opposite poles.…

— Arthur Koestler

“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other…

— Will Davis Jr

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

— Dennis Prager

“Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.”

— Raheel Farooq

The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power.

— Daniel L Dreisbach

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely…

— Gemma Ward

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

— John Wooden

“Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.”

— Charles W. Colson

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

— Alden Ehrenreich

Being an animator, and I've directed tons of mo-cap, which really is about how do characters move through space.

— Timothy Miller

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.

— Norm MacDonald

“It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important”

— Margherita Hack

In normal life, we are all sweet and not vamp. So, to play a villain a lot of focus is required.

— Payal Rohatgi

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends…

— Edward Norton

It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober.

— Corey Stoll

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

— Albert Schweitzer

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

— Marquis de Sade