“Those with enlightened virtue please the people, those without enlightened virtue please themselves. Those who please the people grow, those who please… — Thomas Cleary Copy Share Image
When something arrives, you have no idea what's in it, which is good. And then, it's is the story leaps off the… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward… — Walter Anderson Copy Share Image
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I did more research into the police procedure. I worked out with SWAT guys and ex- and active military guys, and consulted… — Tim Kang Copy Share Image
Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
“It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
In my professional career, every time I jumped into an organization, I always reached the top and the title. I know with… — Ken Shamrock Copy Share Image
My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
Books are a really fun way to get yourself in a certain mindset or mood as an actress. Also, the way people… — Emma Roberts Copy Share Image
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers,… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“Groups are capable of being as moral and inteligent as the individuals who form them; a crowd is chaotic, has no purpose… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character… — Ben Robertson Copy Share Image
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
You have to be able to sustain life. So moments are going to be lighter, but moments are also going to be… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“In this world, therefore, the dominion of good men is profitable, not so much for themselves as for human affairs. But the… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“4. Man is neither Good-natured nor Bad-natured according to Su Shih (So-shoku).[FN#164] The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was… — John Heilpern Copy Share Image
That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that… — Lauren Lapkus Copy Share Image
Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“A notion of character, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
“beneficial results possible. They become the basis of a person’s character, creating an empowering center of correct maps from which an individual… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
Some actors - myself included - like to know where your character's going: you like to know what the arc is for… — Raza Jaffrey Copy Share Image
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
“There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
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