Adam Johnson Quotes, Character Quotes, Thinking Quotes

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Religious Quotes , Character Quotes

The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

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You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.

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My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

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Tags : Abdellatif Kechiche Quotes , Character Quotes , Black Quotes

Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Character Quotes , Matter Quotes

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Discovery Quotes

What you are comes to you.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Law Of Attraction Quotes

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.

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Tags : Aeriel Miranda Quotes , Character Quotes , Style Quotes

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Dream Quotes , Character Quotes

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

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Tags : Abraham Kuyper Quotes , Character Quotes , Church Quotes

There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Progress Quotes

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Vigor Quotes