Characteristics Quotes · Page 25

As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in…

— Denis Hayes

[ John F.Kennedy's friend] Chuck Spalding at the wedding said Jack was two guys: the groom and somebody else observing from a…

— Chris Matthews

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers…

— Lech Walesa

There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success…

— Martin Seligman

At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which…

— Hannah Arendt

Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a…

— David R. Hawkins

“The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. It…

— Raymond B. Fosdick

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

— Noel Carroll

Trying to be the best. Failing. Getting back up. Those characteristics are going to allow you to make great decisions. They are…

— Ronnie Lott

Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show…

— Robertson Davies

There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The fortress inspired a tremendous confidence. It was the only propeller driven aircraft I have flown that was completely viceless; there were…

— James Weldon Johnson

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It…

— Isabel Allende

Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which…

— Jean Baudrillard

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

— Edward Heath

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have…

— Franz Boas

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their…

— Edith Wharton

You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the…

— Peter F. Hamilton

The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

— Ambrose Bierce

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

— Thomas Carlyle

The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was…

— David Duke