My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character they’re meant to… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
There is always going to something very grounded about the characters I play, because of my Chicago roots, because the city is… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Because when I can believe in a villain, I can fear them. My pulse races, I worry about the heroes, I read… — Saundra Mitchell Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
“Willpower: "This virtue, like moste virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People always ask me what I think, if Edward Snoden is a hero, if he's a villain. I don't really tend to… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true,… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Mads Mikkelsen’s acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads’ Hannibal… — Caroline Dhavernas Copy Share Image
How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I also wanted to have fun with it. I wanted to have the scope, which I felt Merlin has, in his Machiavellian… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
When you're doing a multicam sitcom, you have an audience right there. When you go into single cam, whether it's TV or… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always… — Curtis Armstrong Copy Share Image
Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same? The observance… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry… — John Howard Copy Share Image
“May she [United States] never forget that a fair national reputation is of as much importance as independence. That it possesses a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits.… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
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