Character Quotes - Page 27

• The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspirational, Christian, Ministry

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• Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

  Wallace Stegner

  People, Towns

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.77, Penguin

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• If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.

  Wallace Stegner

  Art, Thinking, Light

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1987). “The American West as Living Space”, p.4, University of Michigan Press

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• O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

  Albert Camus

  Summer, Drama, Fate

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.202, Vintage

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• If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Peace, Home, Heart

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 19, 2017

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• A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, People, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.257, Penguin Group

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• The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Integrity

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• Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

  Isabel Allende

  Grandmother, Care, Pages

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Men, Self, Self Control

  Henry Hazlitt (1922). “The Way to Will-power”

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• The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Giving Up, Persistence, Men

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.113, Penguin

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• Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

  John C. Maxwell

  Rise Above, Limitation

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• In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

  Betty Smith

  Children, Teaching, Suffering

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

  Gary Snyder

  Mean, Consciousness, Integrating

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• Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

  Cornelia Funke

  Real, Reading, Pages

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• Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Sweet, Pain

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.205

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• The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.

  Lin Yutang

  Pity Love, Feelings, Purpose

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• In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

  Hilari Bell

  Attitude, Way, Opinion

  Hilari Bell (2009). “Crown of Earth”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.

  Mary Karr

  Fighting, Water, Forever

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• I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Men, Trying

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• A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stories, Inkheart, Reader

  "Inkdeath". Book by Cornelia Funke, www.seventeen.com. 2007.

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• Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Humble

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• The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

  Donald Miller

  Stories, Care, Doorways

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin.

  Ellen G. White

  Hate, Real, Men

  "The Great Controversy".

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• We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Good Friend, Endure, Humans

  E. L. Doctorow, Paul Levine (2005). “Three Screenplays”, p.218, JHU Press

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• I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

  Ann Brashares

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 30, 2013

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