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Quotes About Character

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?" The
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I need to study David Petrakis. His actions speak louder than word. I've never heard a more eloquent silence.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Momma said we had to fight the evil inside us by overcoming it with goodness. She said it was a hard thing to do, but it made us worthy.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Let me tell you about Tidy. She's smug, self-important, and frankly, just an asshole.
~ Laurie Notaro
For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.
~ Laurie R. King
Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain." "Everybody's both.
~ Lawrence Block
history - the lamp which illumines national character...
~ Lawrence Durrell
Even big-bird gets sad sometimes
~ Andrew VanWyngarden
A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.
~ George Herbert
If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.
~ David Hare
What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad.
~ Jim Rohn
No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.
~ Cary Elwes
I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
~ Paracelsus
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
~ Gordon Allport
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.
~ John Desmond Bernal
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
~ David O. McKay
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.
~ Albert Einstein
Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.
~ Harold Morowitz
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
~ Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.
~ Henry Fairfield Osborn
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.
~ David Bohm