Character Quotes · Page 442

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.

— Michael Angarano

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

— Peter Singer

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

— Horace Greeley

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“without an upright character, a person can’t truly be free, or at peace.”

— Benjamin P. Hardy

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

— Henry David Thoreau

You may fall in love with the beauty of someone But remember, Finally you have to live with character, not beauty.

— Babloo

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time…

— Saoirse Ronan

With something like Waterloo Road' it was a lot slower and because I had a relatively small part - I mean, my…

— Tom Payne

Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and…

— Ayn Rand

Growing up watching fairytale movies, I didn't fit the typical prince or princess character. As the world has progressed and I've grown…

— G Flip

Grilling grapes may sound crazy, but the smoky, blistered char they get from a few minutes on the fire gives them a…

— Jonathan Miles

I can honestly say that I've never seen such a transference, from person to character, as I have with James 'becoming' Tony…

— David Nutter

I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters,…

— David Hanson

I think fatalism and redemption are themes that help a reader organize and eventually "own" a story or character. Writing them, I…

— Linden MacIntyre

“I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

I will be working with Akshay Kumar in the upcoming Raghava Lawrence film 'Laxmmi Bomb.' I can't say much, but can mention…

— Babu Antony

“Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or…

— Shannon L. Alder

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions…

— Herbert Marcuse

You have to understand that when you're a voice actor on an animated film, you're really just a tiny little piece of…

— Phyllis Smith

Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is…

— Steven Pinker

The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character.

— J. I. Packer

The only morality in a cruel world is 'Chance'. Unbiased, unprejudiced and fair...

— Anonymous

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

— Jonah Hill

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.”

— Amit Kalantri

I would take it to heart if people were mad about something my character did.

— Lucy Hale

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

— Alexander Hamilton

When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

— Nathan Fillion

I may be a character artiste but I want the audiences to clap and whistle for me as well.

— Rao Ramesh

“If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.”

— Anonymous

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

— Mark Twain

There's No Market For Emotions. So, Never Advertise Your Feelings, Just Display Your Attitude.

— Pacifiersucker

I can't understand why culture cops try and impose their brand of morality on others.

— Shefali Zariwala

Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character.

— Nishan Panwar

“A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

— Ovid