Quotes about character
character men principles
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. Friedrich Nietzsche
character mean thinking
Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control. Jessica Valenti
character world setting
I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. Jerry B. Jenkins
character ideas mind
The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
character holiness conformity
Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God. Jerry Bridges
character godly reality
Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.
character holiness conformity
Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God
character godly men
Peace should be a hallmark of the godly person, first because it is a Godlike trait: God is called the God of peace several times in the New Testament. He took the initiative to establish peace with rebellious men, and He is the author of both personal peace as well as peace among men. Peace should be part of our character also because God has promised us His peace, because He has commanded us to let peace rule in our lives and relationships, and because peace is a fruit of the Spirit and therefore an evidence of His working in our lives.
character spirit virtue
Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.
character interesting evil
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. Jennifer Beals
character thinking play
When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.
character ends wells
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
character thinking shoes
When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them? Jennifer Aniston
character choices limits
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives. Jeane Kirkpatrick
character impact screens
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact. Jeanne Moreau
character artist costumes
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
character writing treading
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading. Graham Swift
character appearance wells
I agree that a well groomed appearance or a slovenly appearance says a lot about one's character. Gloria Gaynor
character evil shining
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist. Giacomo Casanova
character men thinking
The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them. Gertrude Stein
character writing interesting
Some celebrities, it's interesting, because they're fantastic playing a character when somebody is writing the lines for them, and they're amazing actors, but they're not as comfortable on television in front of a live audience and just having a conversation and being themselves. Ellen DeGeneres
character gay community
When I decided to have my character on the show come out, I knew I was going to have to come out, too. I never wanted to be the lesbian actress. I never wanted to be the spokesperson for the gay community. Ever. I did it for my own truth.
character voice fire
It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
character fate loan
No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.
character fortune miscellaneous
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
character moderation proof
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character....
character quality ridiculous
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]
character taste common
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
character men expression
The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral. Francis Schaeffer
character house heaven
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven. Francis Quarles
character play years
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting. Ian McDiarmid
character self views
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust. Ian Mcewan
character female desert
Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.