Quotes About Character

He believed that war brought out the true character in a person, good or bad. He had no sympathy for Banks or the others.

center. He said no. He said, in very fine English, 'I buy, I don't sell.' Then he escorted me out. But I think that was Tran. Something about him.

It was said that L.A. was a sunny place for shady people.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

You arrogant little snot (John Hammond)

She lays the book face down on her chest. Already her bedroom (no, their bedroom) feels more densely inhabited, more actual, because a character named Mrs. Dalloway is on her way to buy flowers.

It is only after knowing him for some time that you begin to realize you are, to him, an essentially fictional character, one he has invested with nearly limitless capacities for tragedy and comedy not because that is your true nature but because he, Richard, needs to live in a world peopled by extreme and commanding figures.

What's so clever about working hard ? he said to Momo. Anyone can get rich quick that way, but who wants to look like the people who've sold themselves body and soul for money's sake ? Well, they can count me out. Even if there are times when I don't have the price of a cup of coffee, I'm still me. Guido's still Guido!

They look like good, strong hands.

My name is Bastian," said the boy. "Bastian Balthazar Bux." "That's a rather odd name," the man grumbled. "All those Bs. Oh well, you can't help it. You didn't choose it. My name is Carl Conrad Coreander.

Why, this was all about him! And it was the Neverending Story. He, Bastian, was a character in the book which until now he had thought he was reading. And heaven only knew who else might be reading it at the exact same time, also supposing himself to be just a reader.

In other words,' said Mr Coreander, 'you're a weakling.

Don't worry. You gave him the right answer." Actually, Michael was after something more important than the fate of his Briarcrest teammate. "I wanted to see what type of person he was," he said later. "If he's pulling scholarships that they'd promised kids, would you want to play for that kind of person? Be around that kind of person?" Coach O wasn't that kind of person, he decided; more interestingly, Coach

The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?" says one trader still at Salomon. "That's easy. Strauss wouldn't stoop to use the men's room on the trading floor. He'd go upstairs. Lewie would piss on your desk.

big choices we make are practically random. The small choices probably tell us more about who we are.

Things went so well for him so often that no one ever needed to worry about how he behaved when they didn't go well.

all the other Giants players were X's or O's. Lawrence was the only one who had a number: fifty-six. He was a little

He's sort of a prick in a way, but he's smart and honest and fearless." "Even

He's not tactically rude," his wife explains. "He's sincerely rude. He knows everyone thinks of him as a character but he doesn't think of himself that way. Steven lives inside his head." When

If this story has a soul, it is in the decisions made by its principal characters to resist the temptation of easy money and to pay special attention to the spirit in which they live their working lives. I didn't write about them because they were controversial. I wrote about them because they were admirable.

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You're opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?" "I'd do it for free. For the bullshit you are, and have always been." "Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character.

Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character.

The reader is to be pulled in by the preponderance of the evidence that he or she has been sifting through. As you read, the details fall like snow that suddenly is ash. The character is clearly visible once he is coated, like a status in the town square after such a storm, with a film of detail.

Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He was upright enough to wish for correction but too weak to enforce it upon himself.