“Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and… — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Yes, I have done many roles with negative shades, such as 'Awara Paagal Deewana' and 'Champion.' But in 'Ashoka,' I played a… — Rahul Dev Copy Share Image
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to… — Carrie Preston Copy Share Image
“[C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach… — Carl Pohlad Copy Share Image
Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for… — Henry James Copy Share Image
All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are… — Satchel Paige Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of scars, be them emotional or otherwise. I think it builds character, and if it doesn't destroy you, I… — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind.… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
It's important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there's a bigger picture involved and, you know, this… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and… — Jake Busey Copy Share Image
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the… — Ana Gasteyer Copy Share Image
When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That worries me an awful lot. If people misunderstand our intentions [in Black Snake Moan], especially regarding my character, then they're essentially… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I came up with the Vic Reeves character for a stage project and people presume that's my name, even when I do… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't… — Shawn Ashmore Copy Share Image
“Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs,… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
![“[C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of…” quote by John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/john-piper-255_beauty_c-s-lewis-showed-me-that-newness-is-no-v_1518966.png)
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