Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

James Taylor

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

James Stockdale

This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.

James Stockdale

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

James Stockdale

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

James Norton

If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical.

James Norton

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

James Nesbitt

Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us,

James Mill

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

James Monroe

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

James Monroe

The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.

James Monroe

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

James McAvoy

That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.

James McAvoy

Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

James McAvoy

I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.

James Marsden

To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it,

James Marsden

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

James Mangold

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

James Martineau

Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.

James Madison

[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

James Madison

[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.

James Madison

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

James Madison

Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.

James Madison

It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a people, both abroad and at home, that they should be considered, as much as possible, in the light of human beings, and not as mere property. As such, they are acted on by our laws, and have an interest in our laws. They may be considered as making a part, though a degraded part, of the families to which they belong.

James Madison

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

Novalis

Character is a perfectly educated will.

Novalis

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Novalis

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Novalis

Character and fate are two words for the same thing

Norton Juster

You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

Emile Hirsch

I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.

Ellen Glasgow

... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.