Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Jodi Benson

What we try to do at Disney and through Disney character voices is really maintain the integrity of our classic characters at all costs. So Ariel needs to be me for every project, and if there are any other Ariels floating around out there, it's not necessarily Disney.

Alexander Payne

I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions.

Debby Ryan

I love people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, people who create and write their own stuff - especially when there's just not enough cool, interesting characters out there.

E. M. Forster

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

E. M. Forster

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

E. M. Forster

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

Douglas Sirk

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

Douglass North

The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Dalai Lama

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

Dalai Lama

As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

Amos Lee

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Anthony Daniels

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

Anthony de Mello

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

Anthony de Mello

Problems exist only in the human mind.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.