Quotes About Character

I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character stupid enough to go into the dark with a flashlight and check the fuses.

Her reaction was in character. Svetlana was at heart a gambler. Throughout her life she would make a monumental decision entirely on impulse, and then ride the consequences with an almost giddy abandon. She always said her favorite story by Dostoyevsky was The Gambler.

You write that you feel bored. You know, my dear, it's the same thing everywhere. I have nothing to do with anyone in Moscow. Sometimes that looks even strange: in so many years not to develop close friendships, but that depends on character.

I like difficult old women, she said. I'm in training to be one myself.

His students were intended to become a caste of capable citizens and inspired political leaders, men who were, as he hoped, "fit for the management of public and private business."36 Above all, he wished to create what he called the vir bonus dicendi peritus, the "good man skilled in speaking"37—someone who was both articulate and virtuous, and who used his oratorical powers for the good of his society.

a thin woman about fifty with a face like a silver hatchet.

Some of us start out whole and stay that way. Some need a spare part or two. Henry - he was a bits-and-pieces kind of guy

Vallon was said to have a Puritan conscience but I had never met his conscience.

He was a man of fifty-five or so wearing an open-necked white shirt from which his head jutted like a weathered statue.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

The hypocrite is against sin in other people. The godly man is against sin anywhere but, first and foremost, against sin in himself.

It seems to me that you can't decide to like a person based on their personal circumstances. It seems to me that sometimes you can like a person because of who they are, despite their personal circumstances.

To use infinite agency to close a gap is to rob it of its infinite character.

Evil is but rarely found in the perpetrator's own selfimage. It is far more commonly found in the judgments of others.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Kotcheff recalled after a northern trek with Trudeau. "He was by far the best dish-washer, fire-maker and camp organizer. He put some of us to shame.… Not only was he fit, he turned out to be one of the best canoeists and sternsmen in the group. If anyone succumbed to the elements, it wouldn't be Pierre.

Who becomes Character. What becomes Action. (What happened.) Where becomes Setting. When becomes Chronology. Why becomes Cause or Motive. How becomes Process. (How it happened.)

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

Fue Himmler, y sólo él, quien durante el curso de la guerra fijó el carácter definitivo de los campos de concentración. Sólo él daba las órdenes al servicio de Seguridad, sólo él tenía el derecho a hacerlo.

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

A [real] man does not flee from truth

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch.