Character Quote by John Fowles Download Open image “It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.” — John Fowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Events
It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them. — Eric Heiden Copy Share Image
It is the time when we realize instead of acting in respect of the most lovable of your life — Kevin Copy Share Image
Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate. — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person. — Michael Angarano Copy Share Image
It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even… — Robert Aldrich Copy Share Image
Don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life. — Toni Collette Copy Share Image
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
