“She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility,… — Thomas Addison Copy Share Image
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
One of the defining characteristics or difference between today's illegal immigration and the immigration of old is the immigrants of the late… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
And this exclusion of "women's work" continues, despite United Nations data gathered since 1975 (the beginning of the UN Decade for Women)… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I… — Ellis Paul Torrance Copy Share Image
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery"… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity,… — Bell Hooks 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
Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since you are "in the market," you need to set standards of what you are seeking in a partner and in a… — David Price Copy Share Image
None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use… — Wolfgang Ostwald Copy Share Image
The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever,… — Jack D. Schwager Copy Share Image
Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself… — John Dewey 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
