Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

Ezra Taft Benson

Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.

Ezra Taft Benson

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

Ezra Taft Benson

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

Eve Ensler

When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would weave its way through the characters. Also, my concerns are changing. What happens is you write a few plays and get boxed into some idea of what your concerns are and what you're supposed to be writing about.

Eugenio Montale

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Euripides

courage is the gift of character

Euripides

When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Euripides

Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

Francis Parkman

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.

Stewart Cink

It just reminds me that the ones doing the work aren't the ones playing tournament golf. They've taken a lot of the character out of it.

It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy. That is all that really passes for destiny. And you choose it.

Shaun Pollock

It's always good to have a partner who is full of energy, and who you can see is giving it 110 percent all the time. You need those kind of characters in a side.

It's always my favorite because I do some of the stuff the main character does.

Robin McLeavy

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.

Geena Davis

It made perfect sense to me that I would play this part, ... I have always been interested in roles that are gonna be challenging for me - but also, characters that other women can identify with.

Lionel Tiger

It is the formidable character of the species to routinely seek the improbable, the difficult, even the impossible, as a source of pleasure and self-justification. Who would try to write poems, or novels, or paint pictures unless he is an optimist?

Mary Lynn Rajskub

It's a pretty dreamy job. As an actor, I think you're always looking for a character like Chloe where there's so much that can be done.

LaMont Jordan

It lets you know about the character of your football team,

It kind of tells you the character of the team. Just how close we are. When stuff like that happens, you can go two ways. It can distract you and pull you apart, or you (can) stick together. The coaches have done a good job of trying to not let us worry about what else is going on. But just stay close to the family.

It kind of gives a character to the campus.

Susanna Clarke

It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.

It was a big win for us because we found the character of our football team.

Andrew Adamson

It was an interesting and challenging character to cast. To create an omnipotent being that was still accessible, so you felt the vulnerability of when he dies.

Antonio Banderas

It was a satisfaction for my own community and to represent a character that says a lot about our community.

It was a very big win for the program. We didn't play well defensively, though. We had five errors, but the plus side is that we showed enough character to overcome those errors.

It was a South finish to come back the way we did. This team has a lot of character.

John Gibbons

It says something about the guy, how strong he is. Strong character guys and quality guys, the sun has the tendency to shine on guys like that in the long run.

It says a whole lot about his character. To step up there and made two free throws like that is something else.

It says a lot about the character of this team. We're not often down, and we had an opportunity to be down tonight. And we think we responded well.

It's a wonderful way to introduce children to the magic of live theater, with characters they can easily identify with.

It's a credit to his character that he would be back the very next night ready to play. He showed up Saturday night and refused to sit out. This kid never takes a night off.

Ellen Burstyn

Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're not seeing an actor at all, but a fully realized human being. Think of how he was in The Godfather. If you didn't know Bobby, you'd think that he really was Tom, the consigliere. Then you see him in Santini, and he's completely different. He's not only a personality, he's a consummate actor.