Character Quote by Richard Overy Download Open image “Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.” — Richard Overy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Complex characters Complexes Contradictory Goering
Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past. — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
Most people thought Gomer was stupid, dumb, a real klutz. But you study him, he really wasn't any of those things. Gomer just didn't… — Jim Nabors Copy Share Image
“The presentation of self in everyday life. This guy Goffman had the idea that in different situations, you perform yourself differently. Your character isn’t… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
“Let us take a limited example and compare the war machine and the state apparatus in the context of the theory of games. Let… — Gilles Deleuze y Féliz Guattari Copy Share Image
My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense… — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share Image
“Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.” — Samuel Shem Copy Share Image
I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role of a… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
“Behind him she saw something which by contrast with the alien incalculable figure before her, was close and real. It was something which she… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits. — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past. — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
“No one in either system could be unaware that State Security was out there, but for the ordinary citizen, uninterested in politics, lucky enough… — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery… — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook… — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
“There have been ample opportunities since 1945 to show that material superiority in war is not enough if the will to fight is lacking.… — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work. — Richard Overy 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