Quotes About Character

Being herself was extraordinary enough

Truly edifying words are words that reveal the character and the promises and the activity of God. They're cross-centered words. They're words rooted in and derived from Scripture, words that identify the active presence of God, and words that communicate the evidences of grace that you observe in others. They're words that flow from a humble heart.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

Sebastian (Se-bastard) is a Scorpio..

The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.

When it comes to people--don't write about who you know, but what you know of human nature.

He's such an asshole you'd never believe he could be religious, but he is.

about Jimmy Carter

Officer Delinko thought the bald man must have a good sense of humor to go by such a nickname, but he was wrong. Curly was cranky and unsmiling.

At heart Chaz Perrone was irrefutably a cheat and a maggot, but he had always shunned violence as dutifully as a Quaker elder. Nobody who knew him, including his few friends, would have imagined him capable of homicide. Chaz himself was somewhat amazed that he'd actually gone through with it.

Love this description of minor character, Lou Zicutto: Lou was branch claims manager of the mammoth insurance company where Decker worked part-time as an investigator. Lou was a spindly little twit, maybe a hundred twenty pounds, but he had a huge florid head, which he shaved every day. As a result he looked very much like a Tootsie Pop with lips.

While the style of the critique may vary with the character of the critic, overly polite criticism benefits neither the proponents of new ideas nor the scientific enterprise.

Every major power has some widely publicized justification for its procurement and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction, often including a reptilian reminder of the presumed character and cultural defects of potential enemies (as opposed to us stout fellows), or of the intentions of others, but never ourselves, to conquer the world.

Princess, the age of some people can only be calculated by the level of - level of - rot in them.

The true measure of a man has nothing to do with years and everything to do with how well he looks after those who depend upon him.

Maybe God was about to show him what he was made of.

Nate Beckett is a man I will point to when my daughter asks me what kind of man she should marry.

Honesty is never wrong.

There were times that being a half-blood bothered him, but Flick had stoutly insisted that it was a distinct advantage because it gave him the instincts and character of two races to build upon

son los actos y no las palabras los que marcan la diferencia.

given the power to choose our fate. Fate always decides for us in the end, though we can choose the direction and make the journey. We do as much for ourselves as we can. Sometimes it is enough; sometimes it isn't. But we must try; it is in the nature of our character to always try." I stare at him, thinking through what he says.

Literary figures have no pre-history. It is said that a theatre director who was staging one of Harold Pinter's plays asked the playwright for some hints as to what his characters were up to before they came on stage. Pinter's reply was 'Mind your own fucking business.

Discussing the character of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice is a matter of content (of 'what?'), whereas examining Jane Austen's techniques of characterisation is a question of form (or 'how?'). Some may find these fine distinctions scholastic, but then some find any fine distinctions scholastic.

We all can be no more, or less, than who we are.