Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold.… — Solon Copy Share Image
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
Losing builds character. You know who said that? A loser! Guy who got his ass stomped every day, basketball, football, baseball, lose,… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I do think that the attitude of the show is about tolerance. Everybody is different, and the show embraces that. The character… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I really go with my personal taste and with what's on the page in terms of… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and… — Lydia M Child Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is what one of the founding fathers of sociology, Emile Durkheim, meant when he wrote in 1895 that the establishment of… — Gerhard Falk Copy Share Image
Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“When we are Enlightened, or when Universal Spirit awakens within us, we open the inexhaustible store of virtues and excellencies, and can… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth Is: Don't let anyone powersteering dictate your character nor your future, because all men are created equal, the only difference is… — Larry Cowell Copy Share Image
Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Batman Begins' is that he's a character that people thought they knew a lot about, and yet you're able… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Though every film teaches me at least three new things, I don't subscribe to doing homework about a character's backstory unless it's… — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image
“When leaders are worthy of respect, the people are willing to work for them. When their virtue is worthy of admiration, their… — Huananzi Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up… — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life… — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The most rewarding thing for me is people coming up and thanking me for being a great character guy for their kids;… — Andy Dalton Copy Share Image
“The moral sense sanctifies a set of norms and taboos that govern the interactions among people in a culture, sometimes in ways… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“You play because you have a guilty attraction to supernatural beasts and harlequin love stories, but you harbour the secret presumption that… — Joe Mcdaldno Copy Share Image
Walt Disney said everything he had ever accomplished was a result of Mickey Mouse. Mickey was Walt's alter ego and he was… — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
Thanos was the first character I ever created professionally. He's always been the baby I return to whenever I work with Marvel. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring… — Aaron Korsh Copy Share Image
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image