Character Quotes · Page 390

“If your conscience objects, surely God also objects since He is even greater.”

— Henry Hon

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the…

— Walter Kaufmann

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

— John Maynard Keynes

“I am a terrible judge of character' "I don't think so. You just need to take note of FACTS from the outset,…

— Freya North

It's really fun to play a character that fights back and say what she means.

— Lauren Lapkus

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.

— Christina Hendricks

“We cannot control our circumstances, but we can control our character.”

— Patrick Morley

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

— John Fletcher

When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief,…

— Karl Rove

I've had a couple of people come up to me after screenings and say they kind of sympathized with the character. I…

— Michael Eklund

Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.

— Chuck Leavell

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

— Rita Mae Brown

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and…

— John C. Bogle

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less…

— Julius Charles Hare

So many of my characters have really crazy physicalities, so it's really fun to be able to say, like, 'I'm an elf…

— Lauren Lapkus

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there…

— Curtis Armstrong

“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of…

— Richard P. Feynman

“This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was. But over them both there…

— Thomas Hardy

“As free persons, citizens recognize one another as having the moral power to have a conception of the good. This means that…

— John Rawls

I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of…

— Joseph Beuys

I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and…

— Charles M. Schulz

So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had…

— Don Hertzfeldt

Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method…

— Kevin Young

“Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral rights must always prevent”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

I am not necessarily a private person, but I am Charlotte Flair on camera, and that is playing a character.

— Charlotte Flair

We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

— Aristotle

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the…

— Hope Davis

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

— Anonymous

I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.

— Robert Englund

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

— Alex Kapranos

Nobody can ever describe how much you explore a character on a Peter Berg movie until you're doing it.

— Lauren Cohan

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a…

— Sylvester Stallone

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

— Paul Tillich

“writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it,”

— Ralph Keyes

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

— Greg Howard

It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.

— Jerry Reed

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

— Jerry Falwell

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin…

— Joshua Lederberg

You do 'New Girl,' you play a character like Schmidt, you crave as an actor afterwards to just do something different.

— Max Greenfield