Quotes About Character

It's just as I thought, she said. I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves, and some look selfish and cruel. You are unassuming and kind. I intend to ask my father to marry me to you, instead of to the Prince in Ochinstan. Would you mind?

I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.

Sophie knew Howl could sound unhappy in heaven if it suited him.

My shining dishonesty will be my salvation

Hasn't anyone ever told you that the Devil, however he appears, is never a perfect gentleman?

That was Sophie's trouble. She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

If you annoy me, watch out! I shall put you in a book as a baddie and then make people laugh at you.

I know Brian is nasty, but I had always thought it was his situation before this,' Nirupam remarked.... Charles could not answer at once, because he was not sure that a person's character could be separate from his situation in quite this way.

Just what kind of a person are you, Miss Lea?" I fixed my mask in place before replying

That name was Adeline March.

A whole lot of good my IQ came when it came to judging his character.

It's more about what this training teaches a man about himself than a skill he'll take with him into the groups or into combat," Captain Shields added.

I doubt if there is such a thing as a wholly free choice, because one's choices are rooted in one's personality.

Notice that the GOP program—articulated by Douglass and affirmed by black leaders—is none other than the color-blind ideal outlined in Martin Luther King's famous "dream." King envisioned a society in which we are judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. This is substantially what Douglass and other black Republicans called for, more than a century earlier.

In 1935, seven years before the Nazis fully implemented the Final Solution, Hitler advocated emigration and ghettoization as interim solutions to the Jewish problem. The Jews, Hitler said, must be "removed from all professions, ghettoized, restricted to a particular territory, where they can wander about, in accordance with their character, while the German people looks in, as one looks at animals in the wild."30

Maybe it was the hip-sprung way she moved, high-assed and shiny, alert to surfaces, like a character in a B movie soaked in alimony and gin.

Make no mistake. I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your causal gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force, charged waves of identity and being. There are no amateurs in the world of children

A writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This is how we reply to power and beat back our fear.

Make no mistake. I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your casual gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force, charged waves of identity and being. There are no amateurs in the world of children.

I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your casual gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force, charged waves of identity and being. There are no amateurs in the world of children.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Do not be satisfied when others think of you as being devout—but truly be in reality what you appear to be. Woe to the man who is not pious yet wants to be considered as such.

My mother was a royal virgin, Peterson said, and my father a shower of gold. My childhood was pastoral and energetic and rich in experiences which developed my character. As a young man I was noble in reason, infinite in faculty, in form express and admirable, and in apprehension... Peterson went on and on and although he was, in a sense, lying, in a sense he was not.

The present goal of the individual in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.