Nobleness Of Character Quotes & Sayings

Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses provocatively. — Caitlin Moran

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, — Mother Teresa

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was ... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working. — Lee Hazlewood

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times
always with the same person. — Mignon McLaughlin

It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if not altogether acceptable) behavior of male writers; it would surely benefit me, as a writer, if I had the courage to seek out more of the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant myself. But women who seek out such things are made to feel ashamed, or else they sound stridently ridiculous in defending themselves
as if they're bragging ... Yet there are subjects that remain off-limits for women writers. It's not unlike that dichotomy which exists regarding one's sexual past: it is permissible, even attractive, for a man to have had one, but if a woman has had a sexual past, she'd better keep quiet about it. — John Irving

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up. — Kay Panabaker

Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it. — Markus Zusak

You can't go alone."
"He won't see me otherwise. I'll make an appointment. People don't get killed when they make an appointment. — Michael Robotham

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. — Charles Eames

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low. — James Surowiecki

The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished. — Victoria Hanley

With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing. — Kay Redfield Jamison

As I came up from the galley, the sun was going down into the ocean in a blaze that paved the western sea with gold like the streets of Heaven. I stopped for a moment, just a moment, transfixed by the sight. It had happened many times before, but it always took me by surprise. Always in the midst of great stress, wading waist-deep in trouble and sorrow, as doctors do, I would glance out a window, open a door, look into a face, and there it would be, unexpected and unmistakable. A moment of peace. The — Diana Gabaldon

Terror is the most dreaded weapon in modern age and the Western media is mercilessly using it against its own people. It can add fear and helplessness in the psyche of the people of Europe and the United States. It means that what the enemies of the United States cannot do, its media is doing that. You can understand as to what will be the performance of the nation in a war, which suffers from fear and helplessness. — Osama Bin Laden

In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper. — Henry David Thoreau