"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I really pride myself in being able to combine soft and hard characteristics. If I do a leather jacket, then it will… — Bridget Kelly Copy Share Image
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the… — A.J. Ayer 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 distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of… — Joachim-Ernst Berendt Copy Share Image
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative. — Hildegard Goss-Mayr Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
At times the [radio telescope] records exhibited a feature characteristic of interference, occurring some time later than the passage of the two… — Kenneth Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral. — R. Heber Newton Copy Share Image
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors. — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced.… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image