Character Quotes · Page 462

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

— Francis Schaeffer

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

— George Bernard Shaw

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

— Dale Carnegie

“I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.”

— Rumi

I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.

— John Lithgow

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

— Alan Rickman

May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.

— Michael Jackson

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character…

— David Bailey

It is sad to lose values in the fight to belong¦ establish personal boundaries relating to your character or values that yields…

— Nkululeko Goqo

Not only was I really, really depressed when I was not out to the world, but I just finished my NBC series,…

— Josie Totah

“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will…

— Shannon L. Alder

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.

— James Cromwell

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover…

— Neil Peart

Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to…

— Madeleine Stowe

“Some have accused me of a strange design Against the creed and morals of this land, And trace it in this poem…

— George Gordon Byron

Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of…

— David O. McKay

“The Lord, however, calls us to be people of deep moral sensibility. He is less concerned about our getting every jot and…

— William G. Johnsson

I've always said that with a lot of the horror franchises that I've started, it's like directing a pilot. I come in,…

— James Wan

“Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the…

— Anthony Liccione

“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby…

— Julian Assange

“Character is the very life of fiction. Setting exists only so that the character has someplace to stand. Plot exists so the…

— John Gardner

Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of…

— Will Self

“After the merch booth has closed, I join the melee, but am nudged to the middle of the mob, and then the…

— Christina Lauren

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

“The moral man does something, and when no one responds he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.”

— Laotzu

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

— Stephen Covey

I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.

— Ben Mendelsohn

For me, the first thing that I respond to - whether it's doing a play or movie or television or anything -…

— Scott Glenn

Zen says: Remain true to your freedom. And then a totally different kind of being arises in you, which is very unexpected,…

— OSHO

“When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that." Solin, character in The…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the…

— Juno Temple

Actually there were [ in MacGyver] a lot of things about the original that focused on the character, but not too many…

— Lucas Till

I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able to…

— Kurt Angle

“Since the fall of man was ethical in character (not metaphysical) the unregenerate and regenerate share the facts of the world and…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Obviously, I'm a fan of satire. I'd debate anyone, but it would have to be the actual person. That would be my…

— Ann Coulter

I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why…

— Natalie Portman

I think, as an actor, you create things for your character that you think will make it more personal to you, because…

— Kelly Marie Tran

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and…

— Mark Pellegrino