Character Quotes - page 13

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences. (Christopher Lee)
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. View quote
Bernard Baruch
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth. View quote
Irving Langmuir
Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success. View quote
Philip Roth
When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness . View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise. (E. M. Forster)
I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures. View quote
Brian De Palma
The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts. View quote
Thomas Gainsborough
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. View quote
Abigail Adams
What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character. View quote
George W. Bush
If character is destiny, the good are damned. View quote
Joseph Heller
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing. (Neil Gaiman)
I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character. View quote
Jon Stewart
"This sucks on so many levels." - Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought. View quote
Roger Ebert
My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned, but an idiot... So we said, "Let's give him a promotion." View quote
Stephen Colbert
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable. View quote
John Wesley