Alan Lightman Quotes, Writing Quotes, Character Quotes

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

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I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Character Quotes , Order Quotes

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

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If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Character Quotes , Science Quotes

In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.

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Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his life he never had said at the right time, either to himself or anyone else-gave way to the proposed arrangement.

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No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

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The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.

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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

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PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

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Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

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Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

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Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation, ultimately are gonna be more successful than societies that don't.

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Love Quotes , Character Quotes

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

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