True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I actually reached out to my agent about appearing on 'The Good Wife.' The main character of the show went to Georgetown… — Roy Hibbert Copy Share Image
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
When you're doing a movie, you're in and out of there in three months. If you hated the experience, it's all good… — Jordana Brewster Copy Share Image
There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“I have always believed that character is destiny, that if you know someone's true character, you can pretty much map out how… — David Lozell Martin Copy Share Image
I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We use wrestling moves to tell a story but it boils down to the character and being able to bring either love… — The Undertaker Copy Share Image
I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due… — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Yes, I play this evil, mean character Victoria in 'Baywatch.' It is so much fun. I didn't want my first film in… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you talk in a way that is too dissimilar to the character, when people are showing up to see you talk… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Absolute truthfulness, and conscience as its manifestation, are within everybody. Acknowledging it is wisdom, and living it is virtue.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script,… — Mathieu Demy Copy Share Image
I think you always take away a little bit of a character with you, and it kinda like hangs on you for… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Moral experience—the actual possession and exercise of good character—is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning,… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
