The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.
David Levithan
Related Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Judgment is a key player that separates humanity from an everlasting peace. RYAN KIER I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU It is not important who you are; what is important is what you have done to change humanity for the ... DEBASISH MRIDHA When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere... ELIZABETH ASTON Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT We are part of the same society. We are part of the same humanity. When humanity is happy, we will b... DALAI LAMA XIV, DESMOND TUTU, DOUGLAS ABRAMS What all of us have to do is to make sure we are using AI in a way that is for the benefit of humani... TIM COOK The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures o... LUIGI BARZINI The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-... ALFRED KORZYBSKI Humanity is the light of hope, humanity is the destruction of good and evil.Humanity at the end is w... ANONYMOUS I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain the... MARYJANICE DAVIDSON She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabrainge... JANDY NELSON The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity. CARLA GUGINO A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying w... RAY BRADBURY Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong ... FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what s... WOODROW WILSON The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yo... MIKE DIRNT May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE As part of humanity, each of us is called to develop and share the unique gifts we are given. MOLLIE MARTI Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. FRANCIS BACON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. GLORIA STEINEM For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen,
is that she asks nothing for hers... THOMAS WOODROW WILSON I want to save humanity from disaster but its turn out that humanity is the disaster. EDGAR BARRON Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreove... MARCEL PROUST The fallacy that Morley in his life of Gladstone asserts to be the greatest affliction of politician... ALFRED KORZYBSKI PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanit... ALDIS HODGE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The thing about this festival that I love is that it brings people from all walks of life together f... ANDREW CARROLL To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and signi... WALT WHITMAN She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by fut... THOMAS MANN Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ... C. JOYBELL C. We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world. DEBASISH MRIDHA The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Architecture is a survival element for humanity. The practice of
Architecture is what gives me a hom... GAMAL M OSMAN While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of m... MAYA ANGELOU Another person: a door you can't enter, even by knocking. MARTY RUBIN Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nation... MURIEL BARBERY Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under... RICK YANCEY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... A fine giornata ci sono poche persone intorno a voi che vogliono veramente vedervi sereni, felici e ... C. JOYBELL C. How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ... GERMANY KENT
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The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end. DAVID LEVITHAN I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday. DAVID LEVITHAN You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,... DAVID LEVITHAN There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don... DAVID LEVITHAN I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blu... DAVID LEVITHAN The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearran... DAVID LEVITHAN I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend. DAVID LEVITHAN So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me." She triangled... DAVID LEVITHAN What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people... DAVID LEVITHAN exacerbate , v . I believe your exact words were: "You're getting too emotion... DAVID LEVITHAN If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accompl... DAVID LEVITHAN yearning, n. and adj. At the core of this desire is the belief that ... DAVID LEVITHAN Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it? DAVID LEVITHAN And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that ... DAVID LEVITHAN ubiquitous , adj . When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�... DAVID LEVITHAN flux , n . The natural state. Our moods change. Our lives change. Our feeling... DAVID LEVITHAN breathtaking , adj . Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour be... DAVID LEVITHAN I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. ... DAVID LEVITHAN libidinous , adj . I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor.... DAVID LEVITHAN love , n. I'm not even going to try. DAVID LEVITHAN lover , n . Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always bei... DAVID LEVITHAN Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ... DAVID LEVITHAN If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which ... DAVID LEVITHAN There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn'... DAVID LEVITHAN You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all... DAVID LEVITHAN There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about... DAVID LEVITHAN Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m... DAVID LEVITHAN Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs. DAVID LEVITHAN How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-s... DAVID LEVITHAN Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold ... DAVID LEVITHAN It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia... DAVID LEVITHAN I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to ... DAVID LEVITHAN Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person ha... DAVID LEVITHAN Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you e... DAVID LEVITHAN Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical ... DAVID LEVITHAN My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots. DAVID LEVITHAN The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers. DAVID LEVITHAN So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is th... DAVID LEVITHAN My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get aw... DAVID LEVITHAN Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is? DAVID LEVITHAN