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Quotes About Character

I believe the first test of truly a great man is in his humility.
~ John Ruskin
Shakespeare has no heroes. He only has heroines.
~ John Ruskin
Uh-uh, not the way it works," Means said. He was a fleshy man, with nicotine-stained teeth and drooping cheeks. And, "Say, didn't you work for Virgil Flowers for a while, up in Minnesota?
~ John Sandford
Well, that's science fiction television for you, though, Abnett said. Someone's got to be the red shirt.
~ John Scalzi
because she wasn't some fucking fictional character destined to do whatever some goddamn hack wanted her to do.
~ John Scalzi
I understand you knew Nadashe Nohamapetan personally." "I did," Kiva said. "What did you think of her?" "She's a raging jar of crotch sweat." "Seems accurate.
~ John Scalzi
There aren't a lot of people who can carry off petty," I said. "Yet somehow you do.
~ John Scalzi
I'm not a good man, Mark," Holloway said. "But I was the right man. And for this, that was enough.
~ John Scalzi
allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people. You seem like good people. I can't say that's all that matters to everyone, but it's what matters to me.
~ John Scalzi
Try not to vote for anyone who is a whirling amoral vortex of chaos.
~ John Scalzi
Clever techniques borrowed from slick salesmen have no place in evangelism because they are not crafted with the character of God in mind.
~ Unknown
You are What you do When it counts - The Masao
~ John Steakley
You are What you do When it counts.
~ John Steakley
Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
~ John Steinbeck
He's a nice fella," said Slim. "Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
~ John Steinbeck
We will rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly... In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
~ John Steinbeck
Anybody can break down. It takes a [real] man not to.
~ John Steinbeck
When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.
~ John Steinbeck
Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor—no dignity, no character of his own.
~ John Steinbeck
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well--or ill?
~ John Steinbeck
İnsan bazen o kadar kendi d???nda davran?r ki, size '' Bunu yapm?? olamaz. Karakterine ayk?r?, dedirtir. Belki de deÄŸildir. Yaln?zca baÅŸka bir aç? söz konusu olabilir veya yukar?dan aÅŸa??dan gelen bask?lar kiÅŸinin davran?? ÅŸeklini deÄŸiÅŸtirebilir.
~ John Steinbeck
Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.
~ John Steinbeck
a tight hard little woman humorless as a chicken.
~ John Steinbeck
Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.
~ John Steinbeck