Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plutarch

By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?

Plutarch

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

Plutarch

It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

Plutarch

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

Plutarch

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

Plutarch

Character is inured habit.

Plutarch

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Plutarch

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

Character is simply habit long continued.

Pia Zadora

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

Pierce Brosnan

It will be very hard to get out of Bond. It will be the pictures I do between Bonds that will color my career, that will give my career longevity after this franchise is over ... I will be stamped with this character for life.

Pierce Brosnan

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

Pierce Brosnan

I love these kind of movies as a kind of cinema-going geek myself. Those characters, you want to be like those characters when you go to the movies. You know, when you see a movie with a guy who's really cool and the killing's slick and easy. I don't know. There's something intoxicating about it.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

Phyllis Smith

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

Phillip E. Johnson

We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.

Phillips Brooks

The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

Phillips Brooks

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Mickey Kaus

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the same—crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

Mother Teresa

Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you

Molly Quinn

I really want to do a dark character. Not really a bad guy, but someone dark and mysterious. Where everyone says, 'Ooh, it has to be her!' and at the end you find out it isn't. Just someone who looks guilty.

Mira Sorvino

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

Mike Judge

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?

Mike Judge

All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big.

Mike Judge

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

Paula Patton

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

Paula Patton

Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with your performance, some of your own personal character seeps through. My performance goal has always been to perform for the audience. People pay their hard earned money, and so I always desire to give all of myself in every single scene.

Paula White

Good means ultimately he's producing character in me to conform me into the image of Christ.

Peter Straub

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

Peter Travers

Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.

Peter Thiel

We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.