Quotes About Character

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them. And

My little Jasnah, insufferable and wonderful.

It's always a dangerous thing for a writer to resurrect a character. It threatens to undermine the consequences in a story, and minimizes the risks characters take. At the same time, I knew Kelsier's story—in specific—was not yet finished. Readers sensed this. There was more to be told.

Look who's full of himself," MeLaan said from her chair. "He's always full of himself," Wayne said, cracking a walnut. "Mostly on account of him eatin' his own fingernails. I seen him do it.

Be a man and not a beast.

The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's in how they make use of what life has shown them.

That was one attribute in a man that Zane respected above all others. Especially since he had trouble displaying it himself.

Brandon: How does the character fit into the story, how will people expect them to fit into the story, and how, therefore, can I make them incongruous for those expectations? I'm looking for incongruity. Ask yourself why this character cannot fill the role in the plot that they are expected to fulfill. Ask yourself who would be perfect for this role. I'm not going to use that person.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

How remarkable," [Wit] said. "If you spend your life knocking people down, you eventually find they won't stand up for you. There's poetry in that, don't you think, you storming personification of a cancerous anal discharge?

It was useful to have a reputation, so long as it didn't crush you.

I need to know about Yomen, the obligator king." "He's a good man." Vin frowned. "Oh," Slowswift said. "You didn't expect that? Everyone who is your enemy must also be an evil person?

The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's how they make use of what life has shown them.

Be slow to trust a man with clothing that was too new. You didn't get to wear new, clean clothing by doing honest work.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will, she'd said. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age. No

I think I would feel more comfortable in this city," she said, "if I didn't know that our Mistborn had the volatile emotions of a teenage girl.

you don't understand a man until you understand what makes him do what he does. Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess.

You are not a weak man, Dalinar,' Navani said. 'I am. But weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.

o aceptas la opción mejor: que tus actos te definen más que tus intenciones. Que tus objetivos y el viaje que emprendes para alcanzarlos deben alinearse.

People today Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice. They act as their surroundings prepare them to act.

It was a powerful man indeed who could mix integrity with savvy.

The book was written to embody an ideal. It was given to people who already had momentum in doing what was right. That was my mistake. Before any of this can work, our people need to have a minimum level of honor and dignity.

A good man, I don´t think I´ve ever known one of those before