Character Quotes · Page 402

I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

— Milla Jovovich

When we're in the storm we learn more about the character of the God we serve than when we're on the mountaintop.

— Natalie Grant

I love unusual games, games that dare to be different and that are not based on violent actions.

— David Cage

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

— Stevie Wonder

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

— Joseph P. Farrell

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

— Leonard Read

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Rumor is what people say you are. Reputation is who people think you are. Character is who you really are when no…

— Nishan Panwar

I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality:…

— Vincent Cassel

First and foremost, stepping into something like a Marvel project is insane. I mean, my character is from 1968, and she's the…

— Emma Dumont

Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to…

— Henry Blackaby

When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn…

— Bill Skarsgard

He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with…

— Jane Porter

I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hulk Hogan was a little different character. He wants to be Hulk Hogan and everything, which was good. I was proud of…

— Jimmy Snuka

The endless teen franchises that come out of Hollywood... more often than not, the central character doesn't have any discernible character traits.…

— Taron Egerton

Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that…

— Alice McDermott

With every character you play you're always trying to put facets of yourself into those characters. I think Asher, at the beginning…

— Cameron Monaghan

“We are endowed with a moral capacity that animals, plants, rocks-and many fervent ecologists-lack. We should not be dirty, wasteful or cruel.…

— P.J. O'Rourke

I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of…

— Daniel Clowes

“Obviously there must be a relationship between our ethical theories and our moral behavior. In a real sense, our beliefs dictate our…

— R.C. Sproul

I worked with dance a lot, for each character - different ways I could move my body, different music. It's the most…

— Tatiana Maslany

Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character…

— Liane Moriarty

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

— Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

— Steven Soderbergh

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

— Julianna Baggott

I'm very opinionated and passionate when it comes to my characters.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

— John Cory

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

— Mark Helprin

I'm lucky that the characters that I get tend to be interesting and a little schizophrenic.

— David Hewlett

“Only stagnant people get stuck because they don't attempt to move at all.”

— Alicia Jennings

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

— Anonymous

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

— Emile Durkheim

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

— Plato

For the Robert Roode character, wrestling is kind of secondary, and money is his main priority.

— Bobby Roode

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

— John Ruskin

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

— Newell Dwight Hillis