Best broken & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on”

Enough Character Moving Broken Forgiveness Grudge Moving On In Life Forgive And Move On Broken Relationship

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I love playing confused, broken characters.”

Character Broken Confused

Author:Nina Dobrev

“Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.”

Heart Character Broken Type Perception Bunch Meg

Author:Dean Cain

“The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.”

Way Character Seems Earth Form Land Color Broken Grades Rolling Bizarre

Book:Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter

Source: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter

“There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.”

Thinking Knows Men Trying Character Purpose House Broken Training Reflection Every Man Passing Ignorant Familiar Passings Sheep Skeletons Draught

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.”

Men Trying Character Purpose Broken Training Every Man Sheep Skeletons Draught

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.”

Character Law Life Is Values Individual Broken Thousand Ideals Gold Genuine Despite Brown Diverse Stamps Mint John Brown

Book:Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second

Source: Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second

“A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.”

World May Character Eye Positive Broken Christian Inspirational Reputation Spots Cracks Character And Reputation Image And Reputation

Author:Joseph Hall

“What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.”

Source: Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

“The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.”

Men Character Eye Together Interesting He Man Hair Broken Lows Meetings Size Noses Shock Usual Foreheads Coarse Interesting Characters Squat

Book:A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens

Source: A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens

“And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.”

Character Dream Remember Spirit Hours Interesting Poor Broken Wings Interesting Characters

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.”

Character Feelings Broken Drama Illusion Sight Personal Feelings

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.”

Men May Sometimes Character Seems Justice Quality Strange Broken Contradiction Contradictory Compounds Regularity Omission Best Of Me

Author:Laurence Sterne

“The real challenge of acting for me, I suppose, is just getting to know a character very, very well and just applying what I know about them to every single scene. That's what it can be broken down to.”

Knows Wells Real Character Challenges Acting Broken Scene Broken Down

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.”

Feels Writing Heart Character Materials Broken Easier Draws Assumption Reasonable Heart Broke

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.”

Men Character Today Life Is Moral Support Broken Authority Responsible Dues Indian Tribes Being Responsible American Indian Indian Tribes Moral Failure

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.”

People Needs Real Character Path Broken Immigration Reform Fixed Citizenship Good Character Hardworking Good Citizenship

Author:Joe Baca

“The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.”

Character Differences Fiction Broken Legs Journalism Interviews Tape Disguise

Author:Sylvie Simmons

“One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking it apart - but only in the service of a character or story that deserves it. Another path I often employ is to put form into "play" - to set it free from its ordinary constraints and let it be free-floating and broken-apart and rearranged.”

Play Character Stories Form Used Path Broken Ordinary Deserve Tradition Floating Constraints Tropes

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters came alive. It's fascinating what happens to the model you've so assiduously assembled when characters are allowed to run rampant: things you thought essential are broken and other things are vastly improved.”

Character Happens Running Alive Building Broken Essentials Intellectual Models Research Abstract Fascinating

Author:Lauren Groff

“In a show that has so many neurotic, broken beta characters, it's always fun to bring in a character who's really confident in themselves.”

Character Shows Fun Broken Neurotic Beta

Author:Elizabeth Meriwether

“When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this is 1,000 pieces of gold gilded wooden sculpture. In terms of design, it's up to the space's character.”

Character Term Space Saws Pieces Design Broken Gold Sculpture Meter Gilded

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.”

Thinking Way Character Shows Humanity Behinds Broken Wall Industry Casts Broken Down

Author:Josh Groban

“What we were most hoping to achieve with Shots Fired: empathy for all of the characters and conversations about our criminal justice system, which is broken on every level, from the street all the way up to the highest level of government.”

Way Character Government Justice Levels Streets Achieve Broken Conversation Highest Empathy Shots Criminals Justice System Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System

Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood

“I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.”

People Trying Character Broken

Author:Matthew Perry

“Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.”

Ifs Knows Needs Heart Mean Important Character Risk Adventure Broken Appreciate Life Experience Lied Being Lied

Author:Nev Schulman

“I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.”

Ifs Knows Feels Ends Character Together Poor Know How Written Tears Broken Pages Tired Leaving I'm Tired Sucker Together Again

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart.”

Years Heart Character Stories Next Waiting Stage Broken My Heart Reflection Wings Appearance Ties Intimate Short Story Portions Curtains Concealed Forged

Author:Shusaku Endo

“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.”

Long Moments Character Pain Joy Mother Father Lost Pleasure Grief Tears Sweet Broken Sacred Embrace Bitter Cups Solemn Recollection Orphan Sisters And Mothers Joy And Grief

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”

Thinking Needs Feels Has Beens Sometimes Character Would Be Night Known Novel Four Nice Loneliness Broken Picks Independent Phones Checks Clock Sunday Sparks Afternoon Panic Wet Taxi Breathless

Book:One Day

Source: One Day

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