My next guest [ for party with five favorite fictional characters] would be Scarlett from Gone With The Wind. I mean, come… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should.… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
When you're setting up your dating profile, choose the photos according to who you are today. A variety of recent shots that… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do it, with ledgers… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do like when you find a true personal relationship with any of the characters, you like to make that honest connection.… — Jonathan Banks Copy Share Image
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While… — Toussaint Louverture Copy Share Image
I want to be careful to not stray too far away from what Batman is to me, but adding that element takes… — David Finch Copy Share Image
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I love Helena Bonham Carter because every character that she portrays, she's just something completely different. And she has that quirky factor… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
My experience is that there's absolutely a correlation between the enthusiasm within an animation studio for a given character and the enthusiasm… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
“Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
It's rare that I've read a script where I'm like, "Oh, my god, it's hilarious!" All you want is a good skeleton… — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you spend 90 seconds with Ryan Reynolds, you know he's Deadpool. There is no one else on the planet that has… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm.… — John Milton Copy Share Image
In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
“Character is more important than rank. Loyalty is more important than wealth. And what the people who truly know you think, is… — Jeff Kurtti Copy Share Image
“any system of morals which has a theological basis becomes one of the tools by which the holders of power preserve their… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
“Let today be the day you control your emotions. Don't let them get the best of you. Whatever you are feeling right… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Psychologically, I'll always be a fat girl because that's what my character is built on. I always got a buzz out of… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image