Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Shoes are everything. You can tell more about a man from his shoes than his handshake, because they tell where you're going.

I believe every person has a story that comes out from the way they talk, their opinion, their mindset and their body language.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality

I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

No man knows himself as an original.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

I'm not acting; I'm not playing me. People forget that their actions make them who they are.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and how she feels

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.