Our Characters Quotes
38 quotes by 36 authors
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The great thing was that as soon as Aidan and I met we clicked, we instantly knew we were going to get along and the…
— Dean O'Gorman
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Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the…
— Ethan Gilsdorf
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As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.
— Epicurus
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The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
— Robert Greene
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It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos…
— James Hillman
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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
— Epictetus
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The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves,…
— Eudora Welty
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Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of…
— Oliver DeMille
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The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice, feelings, will, imagination…
— Michael Chekhov
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover…
— Laini Taylor
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
— Zoe Lister-Jones
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Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find…
— Les Standiford
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At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.
— Walt Disney
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In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily…
— Harold B. Lee
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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
— Euripides
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually…
— William James
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Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or…
— Salman Rushdie
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No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount…
— Sándor Márai
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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
— John Fowles
Who Wrote These Our Characters Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 38 Our Characters Quotes, led by these top contributors: