Quotes about character
character bizarre
To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it, James Marsden
character ridiculous sincerity
The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
character years ideas
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 Mangold
character temptation battle
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 Martineau
character passion order
[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
character law finals
[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.
character men human-nature
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
character slavery republican
Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
character numbers ethics
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
character passion government
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.
character government people
And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty and to the Constitution which is its palladium [protection], ... a Government which watches over ... the equal interdict [prohibition] against encroachments and compacts between religion and the state.
character government liberty
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.
character blessing government
Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.
character gay boys
In the early 90s, I wrote a play called Word of Mouth in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that hes gay. James Lecesne
character writing laughing
What people like are things to laugh at. Funny shows. It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting. And the writing and the execution and the characters are GREAT on (Everybody Loves Raymond). Joe Rogan
character kids thinking
A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones. John French Sloan
character power thinking
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think. John Galsworthy
character writing novelists
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel. John Dos Passos
character records phases
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.
character opportunity creating
With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole cloth. It kind of freed up the analytical part of my brain and I had the opportunity to use more of the creative side of my brain for how things interact with light and integrate into stories. John Dykstra
character always-trying kind
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives. John Eldredge
character men may
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. John Osborne
character darkness doubt
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience. John Ortberg
character law office
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here.
character people cartoon
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character. John Oliver
character
Success is good for the character. John Mortimer
character gay play
I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference. John Michael Higgins
character unnecessary force
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary. John Desmond Bernal
character interest
What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests. John Dewey
character men special
To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.
character thinking actors
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. John Candy
character
You can escape into a character.
character might association
There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed. John Astin