Quotes of: Character-roles Keyword

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half.

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

Selected Literary Essays

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters Set

Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by his impeccable attire.

Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present these in his works. These characters present us with human truth but do not necessarily represent social truth.

Unknown

You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.

When Patty Went to College

There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.

Tess Gerritsen

There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what G...

Price Collier

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

Pam Grier

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

Patrick Marber

I think people are excited because, even watching 'Boy Meets World,' you can tell that those characters are going to do something when they get older. I think people are excited to see characters they grew up with continue.

Rowan Blanchard

I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure.

Rupert Everett

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Ron Glass

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise...

Robert Harris