Character Quotes - page 15

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me. (Nigella Lawson)
I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign? View quote
Chuck Norris
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. View quote
Dean Koontz
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character. View quote
Benjamin Graham
You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things. View quote
Ellen G. White
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence. View quote
Sam Harris
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one. (Imre Lakatos)
Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it. View quote
Ernie Banks
The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. View quote
Horace Walpole
The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching. View quote
Nhat Hanh
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. View quote
John Dos Passos
I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books! View quote
Iain Banks
I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates. View quote
Bob Woodward
Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity. View quote
Stephen Covey
THE MOMENT OF CHOICE A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence. (Stephen Covey)
Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything, partial 'solutions' serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes. View quote
Murray Bookchin
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Character matters; leadership descends from character. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy. View quote
Benjamin Mkapa