Quotes About Questioning One's Character

#1. What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.

Richard Engel

#2. Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

Samantha Harvey

#3. Corporate irony; you will seen the best of machines and worst of people ever.

Vikrmn

#4. I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.

Len Wiseman

#5. There comes a time, we know not when, that marks the destiny of men.

Joseph Addison Alexander

#6. AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor.No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.

Laura Bush

#7. I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

Pedro Almodovar

#8. I remembered that life in that room seemed to be occuring beneath the sea, time flowed past indiffrently above us, hours and days had no meaning.

James Baldwin

#9. The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

John Ortberg

#10. Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

Barbara G. Walker

#11. If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

Jay S. Walker

#13. The fund owns shares in over eight thousand companies, which effectively means that Norwegians own over 1 per cent of the world's listed companies, almost 2 per cent of Europe's and 0.7 per cent of Asia's.

Michael Booth

#14. I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

Juno Temple

#15. Mira sat down on the rim of the fountain. The marble ledge was damp, and mist sprinkled her skin. Coins shimmered under the water like fish scales.
She counted them, each one a wish, and wondered how love could be anything but good.

Sarah Cross

#16. I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Lee Tergesen

#17. Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.

Philip Doddridge

#18. Accurate and questioning dramatic and written narratives that expose true human character, is the necessary glue of any intelligent, enduring and compassionate society.

Yon Walls

#19. In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from 'real intellectuals.

Jack Kerouac

#20. When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

Herman Melville