All Quotes

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.
‐‐ Karen Traviss

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.
‐‐ Elliot Cowan

Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

Characters that are not the norm or a bit out of the ordinary are always a challenge as an actress. You learn more by using different tools for those type of characters. They are always much more fun to play and much more interesting. They take you places that you wouldn't necessarily go in your everyday life.
‐‐ Sally Hawkins

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
‐‐ Jeanne Moreau

Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.
‐‐ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.
‐‐ James Frain

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!
‐‐ Lisa Jackson

Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
‐‐ Bobby Flay

Chard and kale are my favorite these days.
‐‐ Matt Gonzalez

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.
‐‐ Robert Urich

Charisma's good every night. Something special is always about to happen. You've got to believe it.
‐‐ Jim Thome

Charitable involvement, social impact, and global responsibility have always been important at Bain Capital.
‐‐ Joshua Bekenstein

Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.
‐‐ Arpad Busson

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
‐‐ Charles Dickens

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
‐‐ Buddha

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
‐‐ Thomas Browne

Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Charity creates a multitude of sins.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
‐‐ George Sand

Charity fundraisers are nothing new to me. In the past, I have taken part in ski races for hospitals, walks for breast cancer, and long distance bike rides for geriatric care.
‐‐ David Sax

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.
‐‐ Moss Hart

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.
‐‐ Conrad Hilton

Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
‐‐ Malaika Arora Khan

Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.
‐‐ Michael Hintze

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
‐‐ John D. Rockefeller

Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.
‐‐ Eli Broad

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.
‐‐ Manoj Bhargava

Charity is willingly given from the heart.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.
‐‐ Saint Bernard

Charity only works when smart, innovative, compassionate people in the field are supported from home. The World of Children Award raises money and visibility for change makers, people doing the real work. We are a conduit for funding and resources only; all of our operating costs are covered by our generous board of governors.
‐‐ Stephanie March

Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
‐‐ Evita Peron

Charity should always be a constant.
‐‐ Eva LaRue

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
‐‐ Phillips Brooks

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
‐‐ Simone Weil

Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children.
‐‐ Richard MacDonald

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer