Quotes About Character

the books of samuel were originally one book. In the Septuagint (LXX) it was divided into two, owing to its length, and the Christian tradition followed this division. In Hebrew Bibles used by the Jewish community, this division was not accepted until the 15th century, under the influence of the Vulgate. Following a pattern found in some other biblical books, which end with the death of a main character, the division in the book of Samuel was made at the point of Saul's death.

Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.

What remains to be said is that no portrait of the Prophet's character will do him justice. He was superior to anything we can imagine. Perhaps the description that comes closest to the truth is that he was "the teacher of perfect goodness." May God reward him well for having taught that perfect goodness to humanity.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

A people that fails to preserve the purity of its racial blood thereby destroys the unity of the soul of the national in all its manifestations. A disintegrated national character is the inevitable consequence of a process of disintegration in the blood.

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people.

Now for the first time I learned to know men and I learned to distinguish between empty appearances or brutal manners and the real inner nature of the people who outwardly appeared thus.

Un corpo imputridito non sarà certo reso più estetico da uno spirito radioso; anzi, la più alta formazione spirituale non potrebbe giustificarsi se nello stesso tempo i suoi portatori non fossero deformi, storpi, privi di carattere, esitanti e codardi. Lo Stato che non ha interesse all'uomo sano, lascia che la gioventù si corrompa nelle strade invece di prenderla per le briglie e formarne il corpo affinché un giorno si sviluppino da essa uomini sani e donne sane

O es que las guerras perdidas deben ocasionar fatalmente la ruina de los pueblos que las pierden? Brevemente se podría responder que esto es posible siempre que la derrota militar testifique la corrupción moral de un pueblo, su cobardía, su falta de carácter, en fin, su condición de indignidad. No siendo así, la derrota militar impulsará más bien a un futuro de mayor resurgimiento, en lugar de ser la lápida de la existencia nacional.

It's certainly better to be a little old-fashioned but honest and loyal, than to be over-sophisticated and modern, with inferior character, and thus typically ignorant and inefficient.

He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to bloody hurt.

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them

There is a responsibility when you're representing a historical figure, and you want to be as accurate as possible, but you also want to breathe life into the character.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.