We have this saying, and it's been very useful when a series, 'The Mindy Project' goes for longer than a hundred episodes,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“Let us return to Benjamin Rush, who foresaw the revolutionary implications of Benjamin [Lay]'s philosophy. Writing after the abolitionist movement had burst… — The Fearless Benjamin Lay Marcus Rediker Copy Share Image
Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, the right, the principles and applications… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
“He came to chat with me the day of my being discharged, advising that I not stay at the dog fight until… — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The object of the intellect is to light and lead the will on its path, and therefore, the greater the force, impetus… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth.… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
I used to bury myself in character parts and put on a lot of makeup and use a lot of props. At… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I mean drafting is a hard process because you're picking between 23-year-olds sometimes and 19-year-olds that have great upside, and some guys… — Danny Ainge Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The process of playing a character as dark as Omar Saeed Sheikh is disturbing. So you have to mentally also be in… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Greatest American Hero, I really dug that as a kid, because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
“In this country, it is not the highest virtue, nor the heroic act, that achieves fame, but the uncommon nature of the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often… — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
I'd like to have thicker hair. I was in 'What The Butler Saw' and at the beginning the character has got long,… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image