Quotes About Character

Christophe was so much better, so trusting and so kind. Sam had a sharp edge to him and saw through her.

them. She's much too nice about it, but that's the way she is." Leslie almost said that that was why he loved her, but caught

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

thing I was sure the Little People could never do. In a creaky, slow, mechanical tone — he spoke. "Name . . . not Lefty. Name . . . Harkat . . . Harkat Mulds." And his lips spread into a jagged gash, which was as close to a smile as he could come.

Crooked, grasping, evil-hearted people were easy to find. Honest, concerned, self-sacrificing people were harder to come by.

It's tough, him getting it like that. Miles had his faults same as the rest of us, but I guess he must've had some good points too.

Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.

Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down—from high flat temples—in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan.

Studsy returned alone. Maybe I'm wrong, he said as he sat down, but I think somebody could do something with that cluck if they took hold of her right. Morelli said: By the throat. Studsy grinned good-naturedly. No. She's trying to get somewhere. She works hard at her singing lessons and -

Sam Spade: You're a good man, sister.

Yo desconfío de un hombre que dice basta cuando le están sirviendo de beber. Pues si ha de tener cuidado de no beber demasiado, esto indica que no es de fiar cuando lo hace

he was a roly-poly elderly man with a stoop and a waddle—

Leader of Character: someone who uses influence to achieve a moral or ethical goal.

Which do you want to be: a proficient manager or a Leader of Character? The first creates compliant employees. The second leads committed followers!

Character: our habitual way of operating. HOW we are is WHO we are!

Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives—our lives and the lives of the people we touch.

Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, 'Okay, that was perfect, but this time, Bob, instead of saying "What's for dinner?" you say, "Wait a minute! Benzene is actually a hydrocarbon!" And say it with a Norwegian accent. Also, we think maybe your character should have no arms.

He had dark, deepset, piercingly black eyes, overshadowed by eyebrows so bushy that he had to brush them away to see through the glass. But his most prominent feature was the thick growth of hair on his upper lip, long and black, lovingly maintained, measuring nearly a foot between its waxed and pointed tips. It was this feature that gave him his name, the most feared name on the sea: Black Stache.

You're breaking out of character, again.

To say that God commands men to do what they cannot do without His grace, then withholds the grace they need and punishes them eternally for failing to obey, is to make a mockery of God's Word, of His mercy and love, and is to libel His character.

You're not gonna believe this, but generally speaking, good guys follow rules while bad guys don't.

As the old saying goes, if you have integrity, nothing else matters. But if you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

There were hundreds of tiny creases and cracks all over his pale face. A few fine colourless hairs grew on his chin.

In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you're trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone.