But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The tough challenges we encounters, makes us stronger, and wiser. With each victory we gain something of value; our character is strengthened.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
It is great that the industry is open to accepting character roles and moving away from the cliched Bollywood Hindi masala films. — Supriya Pathak Copy Share Image
I always have to have a level of honesty when I'm on stage no matter what I'm doing. Honesty in the sketch… — Chris Redd Copy Share Image
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
You could imagine writing about a prostitute, for instance, but if you haven't spent time with prostitutes then you're going to get… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to… — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
'Premam' is the reason why I am what I am now. If anyone knows Anupama, it is because of Mary. I don't… — Anupama Parameswaran Copy Share Image
I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or… — Marian Anderson Copy Share Image
I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
I'm always aware that there's a trick to television to prevent an actor from becoming too lazy. Once you become too familiar… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
Bascially, I want to do movies wherein even the girl's character actually has a part. If you want me to do glamorous… — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
“Our virtues are the quicksands, which show themselves at calm and low water; but let the waves arise and the winds buffet… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to… — Janet Goodfriend Copy Share Image
All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Virtue - to be good and just - Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
My husband is a graduate of two Ivy League universities - with a degree in Classics! - and he sounds like a… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
A little of the sketch character Pootie Tang went a long way on HBO's now late, probably soon to be lamented 'Chris… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image