Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your… — Richard Kiel Copy Share Image
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story… — Tia Carrere Copy Share Image
I don't want to put on any gimmicky layers just to give the character more definition. I just want to play good… — Hong Chau Copy Share Image
An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right." He just comfort-eats a… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
If Hillary Clinton would have left Bill, that would have ended his presidency, not via impeachment but that would have elevated his… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
I think real humans are so complicated, and often [characters] are written more one-dimensional without maybe even the writer knowing it. I've… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind… — Eiji Aonuma Copy Share Image
“I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's funny - I was a big fan of 'The Sopranos.' It became kind of a threat to 'The X-Files' in a… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we… — William Golding Copy Share Image
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people,… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Someone who loves what he does is really attractive. In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's important for a villain to be as threatening as possible, whether physically, mentally or emotionally... however you want to do it.… — Robert Z'Dar Copy Share Image
The inter-relationships between people have always fascinated me, as a director. And particularly those who are battlers in life, those who are… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
Although the need or demand for a lead actor and actress will never fade in the Bollywood film industry, character roles have… — Supriya Pathak Copy Share Image
Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character. — John McCain Copy Share Image
At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
In feature films, I used to be the hero's friend, a regular character. In short films, I played the hero; I got… — Vijay Sethupathi Copy Share Image
Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character. — Pete Carril Copy Share Image
Tarzan is such a great character in that he's very innocent and wide-eyed about the world, yet he's so powerful and capable.… — Michael T. Weiss Copy Share Image
To be a true star, you need to find that balance in between shining the light on the professional wrestling aspect, of… — Mickie James Copy Share Image
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your… — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
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