Quotes about character
character gun games
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Thomas Jefferson
character men giving
I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.
character america desperate
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
character mean compassion
Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft. Robert Higgs
character people scripts
If you steal other people's characters, it doesn't work with the context of the scripts and what is written, so I wanted to make her my own. I was petrified, in the beginning, because it's such an iconic character, especially being a young lady myself. Tamsin Egerton
character thinking drawing
I don't think I've ever done a character like this before, so I couldn't really draw from previous roles. I've been known for doing a lot of comedies in England, so I don't think that would have worked. I completely went from scratch, with this one, and used the research and what was in the script, and spoke to Chris. It's all from in my mind ,rather than drawing from previous experiences or roles.
character writing views
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's. Tana French
character creating acting
When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.
character needs honorable
Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not. Tamora Pierce
character lunch taught
I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.
character thinking judging
I think I'm a good judge of character. Tamara Ecclestone
character political battle
How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns. Tammy Bruce
character thinking missing
Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something that a character's saying that you haven't heard before and you react differently. Taissa Farmiga
character passionate-desire justice
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. Tahar Ben Jelloun
character writing long
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. Tabitha King
character thinking simple
I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible Tadao Ando
character fame modest
Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.] Tacitus
character law history
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.
character age noble
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
character thinking people
The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now. Sylvia Kristel
character fate
Character is fate. Sylvia Plath
character fate numbness
I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it had been before; how there was that germ of positive creativeness. Character is fate; and damn, I'd better work on my character. I had been withdrawing into a retreat of numbness: it is so much safer to NOT feel, NOT to let the world touch one.
character men two
Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity Swami Vivekananda
character feet mind
We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.
character eye men
Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his eyes. Onward! Onward! There is no time to care for name, or fame, or Mukti, or Bhakti! We shall look to these some other time. Now in this life let us infinitely spread his lofty character, his sublime life, his infinite soul. This is the only work - there is nothing else to do.
character men perfect
Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.
character forever lovers
It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever Rosamunde Pilcher
character writing paper
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.
character exercise thinking
I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all. Ron Howard
character narrative american-exceptionalism
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. Ron Fournier
character responsibility hands
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it? Rollo May
character doe sooner-or-later
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
character men self
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.