Quotes About Character

All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it. Yessir. But there aint but one reason. Yessir. You know what it is? No sir. It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be.

All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it. Yessir. But there aint but one reason. Yessir. You know what it is? No sir. It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be. Yessir.

One thing about me, when I'm wrong I'll admit it. Well. That's a good trait to have.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune.

Well, I'll tell ye, they ain't no more heroes.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story," said Dustfinger at last.

if you can change the fate of a character you read out of a book by adding new words to his story, then maybe you can change everything about it: who goes out, who comes in, how it ends, who's happy, and who's unhappy afterwards.

Wie es so schoen bei Shakespeare heisst: "Jeder spielt seine Rolle, und meine ist eine traurige.

EShe wanted to compare Meggie to a hero from some story, but all the heroes she could think of were men, and anyway none of them seemed to her brave enough for comparison with a girl standing there perfectly straight, scrutinizing Capricorn's men with her chin jutting out defiantly.

Wake up, Dustfinger!" it said. "Come Back. The story isn't over yet.

There's more than one way to be smart. People like my dad assume that because they're smart about being evil bastards, they're smart about everything—

One of the things I'm good at spotting in myself is the fundamental attribution error: that's when you assume that your own dumb mistakes are the result of normal, excusable human fallibility, while other people's mistakes are the result of their fundamental lack of character.

Our level of development is fairly obvious with tennis or piano playing, where it is impossible to pretend. But it is not so obvious in the areas of character and emotional development. We can pose and put on for a stranger or an associate. We can pretend. And for a while we can get by with it - at least in public. We might even deceive ourselves.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

Courage what is within is more important than what is without.

What is within is more important than what is without.

Whatever you are, be a good one. -Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife)

Not only will I be there," Liz said, "but I'll be impersonating a pleasant woman with great manners.

First," she said, "he's dull. He's not lively. Now, plenty of women marry dull men, but your Simon isn't kind, either, and that's a terrible combination. Marrying a man who's dull and nice is fine, or a man who's cruel but fascinating—some people have an appetite for that. But marrying a man who's ponderous and unkind is a recipe for unhappiness.

Just so I understand—" Noah Brewster said, and the confusion on his face made me wonder if he'd turn out to be one of the ding-dongs.

That Mark's a pediatric cardiologist mostly offsets—to me, if not to everyone—how he's also kind of an asshole.

Philippians 2:5: "Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus." The words call us up short as to what we are actually supposed to be doing on this path: not just admiring Jesus, but acquiring his consciousness.

It all depended on what their grandmother was really like, inside herself where she was who she really was. Not outside. Dicey knew about the difference between outside and inside.