Character Attacks Quotes

#1. I was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting out, "Here are the facts, here are the evidence."And I noted, for example, that both of them [Marco Rubio and Donald Trump] were relying on fabrications.

Ted Cruz

#2. Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

Margaret Chase Smith

#3. In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect, from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together, every one abandons him and he remains alone.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.

Grover Cleveland

#5. No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

Alexander Hamilton

#6. I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

Francesco Carrozzini

#7. After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego.

Garey Gordon

#8. Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.

Ikkyu

#9. Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character! EL

Evinda Lepins

#10. The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.

Jack Johnson

#11. He had learned a lesson about propaganda in politics and mused wearily that "no character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false." If a charge was made often enough, people assumed in the end "that a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent."34

Ron Chernow

#12. As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

Charlie Pierce

#13. There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

Pat Conroy

#14. I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.

Pam Grier

#15. A mysterious character of UFOs is that they are sighted only in the First World,' she said, 'and no alien conquest of Earth begins until the mayor of New York holds an emergency press conference. When Mars attacks, it attacks America.

Manu Joseph

#16. I think TV shows have usurped films!

Edie Campbell

#17. After a week passed it had dawned on me what I was and, more importantly, that I needed to do a little more research before climbing into one of you people.

Michael Siemsen