Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility… — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
... Wild Bill had his faults, grievous ones, perhaps ... He would get drunk, gamble, and indulge in the general licentiousness characteristic… — Jack Crawford Copy Share Image
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED — William Rathbone Greg Copy Share Image
The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“I'm rarely rude except accidentally, and that doesn't really count...” — Laura L. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by… — Dmitriy Ustinov Copy Share Image
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style. Even a very neutral, plain style, one… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Technology is the penultimate chameleon, taking on the characteristics of its handler. In some hands technology is a tool of treachery, while… — Brock N. Meeks Copy Share Image
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues.… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
