Quotes with character…

Quotes 321 till 340 of 464.

  • Anne Tyler The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Archibald Macleish The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Bayard Rustin The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Abigail Van Buren The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Bill Alexander The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
    Memorials of the Spanish Civil War: the official publication of the International Brigade Association
    Bill Alexander
    German painter, art instructor, and television host (1915 - 1997)
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  • Agatha Christie The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
    Murder for Christmas (1939)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Bridgit Mendler The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Walter Benjamin The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Peter de Vries The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • John Ruskin The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Byron Howard The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Isabelle Eberhardt The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
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  • Anne Frank The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Silas Weir Mitchell The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's check-books.
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  • George Washington The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Zig Ziglar The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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