Character Quotes
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.
Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.
I think it's always difficult no matter how similar your characters are to yourself to get into that mindset, because however much they are similar to you, they're not you.
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character.
Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.
The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!
Naina is one of the most special films & special characters that I've played in recent times
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.
Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.
You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.
Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.
Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up
