"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Might Quotes

“Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2012). “Flowers For Algernon”, p.154, Hachette UK
“I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.”
“I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.”
“My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.”
“Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.”
“Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a combat zone not to pay attention to it. At least that's how it struck me; others may have had an entirely different war experience.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.”
“Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.”

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