Anna Quindlen Quotes about Character

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Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its

Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

Anna Quindlen

Courage, Heart, Character

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

Anna Quindlen

War, Character, Today

Americans like warm characters. It's why, no matter what he did in the early days, they kind of resonated to Bill Clinton because he seems like a guy that you could sit down and have a burger and a beer with. It's even why, despite the fact that he sometimes seemed to be not firing on all cylinders, lots of them still like George W. Bush - because he seemed like the kind of guy you could have a burger and a beer with.

Anna Quindlen

Character, Beer, Guy

Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.

Anna Quindlen

Character, Loss, Muse

Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.158, Random House

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

Anna Quindlen

Dog, Character, Cat

Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.122, Ballantine Books