The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
“Who you are is too vast to be captured by the reflection of a mirror, classified by the state of your attitude,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.” — Sorin Suciu Copy Share Image
Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want… — Seymour Sarason Copy Share Image
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already… — Michael Chang Copy Share Image
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting… — Titian Copy Share Image
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these… — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
