A.M. Homes Quotes, Writing Quotes, Character Quotes

I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

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... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

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I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

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What you are comes to you.

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To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

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A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

For me, intrigue is a pretty powerful emotion. If you want to know more about a character, if you want to understand how they work, then you have enough curiosity to delve into their skin and their being. That was the biggest pull for me.

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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

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The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Character Quotes , Peaceful Quotes

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

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See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

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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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It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

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Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

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

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Determination Quotes , Character Quotes

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

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