Character Quotes · Page 439

There was something missing In my foundation Why blame the poor walls?

— Javed Akhtar

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

— Marshall McLuhan

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

— Paul Ricoeur

I was taught some very good life lessons and morals as a young kid growing up.

— Israel Folau

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go…

— Susannah Cahalan

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

— George Lucas

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

— George Washington

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really…

— Kevin Bacon

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they…

— Anonymous

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation…

— John Adams

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like…

— Richard P. Feynman

It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't…

— Marion Bailey

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves…

— James Bovard

My job is always going to change; the characters that I'm playing are always going to change. I look forward to playing…

— Milo Ventimiglia

“The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which…

— Walt Whitman

The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service…

— Laozi

At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held,…

— Howard W. Hunter

Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word…

— Charles Dickens

To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of…

— John Dewey

Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a…

— Les Standiford

Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a…

— Miranda July

And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject…

— George Chapman

It was a very, very intense and long casting process [for The Killing] because we really had to find the right people…

— Veena Sud

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

— Philip Sidney

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Confidence is that internal alignment between what you know, what you believe and what you portray.”

— Todd Stocker

Stop living by everyone else's standards. Stop living by society's standards. Live by your own standards and morals.

— Enhance Dreams

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

— Vanna Bonta

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

— Quentin Crisp

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

— Anonymous

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

— Walker Evans

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

— Ben Jonson

We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.

— Marvin J. Ashton

I love playing a character that has more than 90 minutes, and that keeps going.

— Harry Treadaway

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

— Anil Kapoor

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play…

— Hayden Panettiere

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

— Bernard of Clairvaux