#hara

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. ↗

— Sophocles

#character #course #crime #failure #mistakes

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#also #barbarism #being #brutalized #characterized

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#characters #chekhov #created #emphasis #less

So I just play the character, I play the lines. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#i #just #lines #play

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#character #citizenship #confidence #movement #people

I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard? ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#caring #character #generous #give #hard

What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#doing #graduate #i #inspiring #learned

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters. ↗

— Joan Greenwood

#characters #get #hag #i #i am

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#between #character #corruption #delicate #eternal

If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer. ↗

— Miguel Indurain

#been #born #character #had #i