Although cyber attacks have caused billions of dollars in damage and affected the lives of millions, few if any can be characterised as acts of terrorism.
Dorothy DenningSome men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; it seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
Heywood Broun'If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.'
Dr SeussCharacter is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
David HumeCassidy is the sexiest character I’ve played yet. This one girl has something for every guy.
Jennifer SkyA vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore RooseveltHe's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
Arthur MillerGood character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
HeraclitusIn each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
Ambrose BierceCharacter is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George SantayanaCuriosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel JohnsonI don't drink or smoke and I don't like smoky places. I once drank half a pint and I was drunk. When I'm drunk I tell stupid jokes about sex and it's really not me this other character comes out and I don't like him. I tried it for a while to get in with the lads but couldn't hack it.
Benjamin ZephaniahPeople assume that for me to play a sexually open character like Samantha, I must have had fabulous sex for most of my life.
Kim CattrallDreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David ThoreauWe loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake (Character of the late Dr S. Annesley)
Daniel DefoeEvery man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse KarrFirmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert BurnsNoble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
TacitusThe propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. [Ayer was a logical positivist]
A J AyerTo me it's entirely logical, particularly when you are doing a film noir, you may as well go right through with that theme, and the central character could in fact be what he is chasing... (on Deckard, in Blade Runner)
Ridley ScottTo the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
Emma GoldmanEver the characteristic manners of cowardice.
Edward EverettThe higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma GoldmanPoverty is the schoolmaster of character.
AntiphanesThe best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day.
Leonardo DicaprioCharacter is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Friedrich NietzscheBoth matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different
Werner HeisenbergYou can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Ronald ReaganA person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg LichtenbergHard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam EwigCharacter is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture or the blending notes of music which constitute the man.
John MacDuffCertain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress
Johann Lavater Be true to your characters and they'll be true to you. [so what happens if you are false to them?]
Laurell HamiltonRemarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThey told me they wanted to try to do it and I said 'Well I enjoyed playing the character'
Mark WahlbergMen of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max BeerbohmPlaying snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns.
Luigi BarbaritoOur psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.
Keith HensonStrong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Jean Paul RichterThe 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 McCarthyIn all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry ClayI would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.
Noah HathawayA major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.
Graham GreeneNo author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies
Edward Bulwer-LyttonAbout ten years ago I appeared on Wogan as myself. The next day a man came up to me in the street and said, 'You're Harry Enfield, aren't you? I love your characters! Stavros cracks me up and as for Loadsamoney - he's the biz! But I saw you on Wogan last night - you're a right prat in real life, aren't you?'
Harry EnfieldThe sports of the people afford an index to the character of the nation.
Frederick HackwoodIt is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel SmilesMan may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it. - as her character Carrie in Sex And The City.
Sarah Jessica ParkerI never try to completely do a character, if you know what I mean. I always feel like I'm just being me, but in the character's situation.
Jonny Lee Miller
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