Quotes About Character

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

Kimse kendi karakterine özgü olmayan bir ÅŸey yapmaz.

Wenn die Intelligenten einen schlechten Charakter haben, so zeigt sich das, und wenn sie keinen schlechten Charakter haben, dann sind sie so leicht auszurechnen wie Quadratwurzeln.

Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

New furniture has no character whereas old furniture always has a past. New furniture is always mute, but old furniture can almost talk. You can almost hear it talking about the good times and troubles it's seen. I think there is a Country and Western song about talking furniture, but I can't remember the name.

Bir ÅŸeyleri sürekli asaletle halleden insanlar var. O ÅŸeylerin ne olduÄŸunun önemi zaten yok.

Their future was America and three long years of searching and a process of gradual character disintegration and a slow retreat from respectability and self-pride. In three years they would become what they had always despised.

Bragging actually dilutes the positive feelings you receive from an accomplishment or something you are proud of. To make matters worse, the more you try to prove yourself, the more others will avoid you, talk behind your back about your insecure need to brag, and perhaps even resent you.

Circumstances don't make a person, they reveal him or her.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Those

As Einstein said, 'If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Einstein said, 'If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Although a good God regrets our suffering, his greatest concern is surely that each of us shall show patience, sympathy and generosity and, thereby, form a holy character. Some people badly need to be ill for their own sake, and some people badly need to be ill to provide important choices for others.

Just as every gene is the centre of a radiating field of influence on the world, so every phenotypic character is the centre of converging influences from many genes, both within and outside the body of the individual organism.

El Dios del Viejo Testamento; se puede argumentar, es el carácter más desagradable en toda ficción: celoso y orgulloso de serlo; cerrado de mente, injusto, severo y obsesionado con el control; vengativo, un limpiador étnico sediento de sangre, un misógino, homofóbo, racista, infanticida, genocida, filicida, productor de pestilencias, megalomaníaco, sadomasoquista, caprichoso, y un matón malevolente.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Those of us schooled from infancy in his ways can become desensitized to their horror.

McLaughlin is a lean, dark man who looks a little like the TV version of Boston Blackie.

the measure of us is not what we say or think, but what we are when we are tested by suffering.

Suffering is not virtue, nor does it make virtue, nor does of it virtue necessarily flow.

It was striking, the character of destruction. It was always diverse

My one redeeming strength of character may be that I am good when the chips are down. With success I am worse.

Men were like blades, they would all break sooner or later, you included. But you looked around at the men you led, and in their eyes you saw what kind of steel you had to hand, how it had been forged and tempered, what blows, if any, it would take.

I've always thought you are what you are and you shouldn't pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you're pretending to be.