It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming,… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christ-like characteristics. — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Copy Share Image
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which had not… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
