Character Quotes

Enjoy being you. Have fun. And be different.

Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!

God has given every man incomparably great power to reach the highest calling in life.

But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.

At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.

That's different, " Levi smiled at her warmly. "Ypu don't rock that Little Red Riding Hood vibe. You're scary." Reagan grinned like the Big Bad Wolf.

When you hurt one of your characters and then type faster to finish a scene while saying, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They’re unique. They know they were built for the water.

When you win big, that is the time your true character will show.

An American Family Sampler is a book any reader will find insightful, thoroughly researched, and fun to read. Robert Frump, author, award winning journalist, business leader

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.

Once, my enemies were those I could seeNow the devil lies deep within meBut angels still nudge me, whispering follies of sinThis war is mine, and mine alone, to win.

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.

You're still alive. That means you're winning.

Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact that I lacked a strategy and was frightened to the pit of my being.

There are certain life lessons that you can only learn in the struggle.

I realized someone else might tell you you're pretty. I'd do anything to keep you away from that person.

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

The best boyfriends are the ones in books.

For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not difficult.--Simone de Beauvoir

I want you to identify your strengths or talents and to find something about yourself that makes you unique and special and refer to that image each time you find yourself feeling insecure or unsure.

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

He was not of an age but for all time.

As time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and past times and sometimes of as sad gravity as who say: a man for all seasons.

Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.

Evil be to him who evil thinks. (Honi soit qui mal y pense.)

Good but not religious-good.

I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

I can't believe that out of 100 000 sperm you were the quickest.

I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

If I try to be like him who will be like me?

Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his way around the floor.

The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

When they came to shoe the horses the beetle stretched out his leg.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.

Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits that which he has and that which he thinks he has.

If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself.