Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape. — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language. — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic. — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in… — Louis Mackey Copy Share Image
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts, — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back.… — Tom Landry Copy Share Image
