Characteristics Quotes · Page 7

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

— James Agate

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

— Christopher Ricks

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

— Tommy Bolin

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

— Alexander Smith

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust

— Brennan Manning

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not…

— Wallace Shawn

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

— Jean Driscoll

Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.

— Fernando Perez

Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way…

— Michael Freeman

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and…

— Rudy Giuliani

The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale…

— Bill Gates

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

— James Fisher

Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's…

— Quentin Tarantino

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing…

— Alfred Binet

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or…

— Epictetus

There is no need to pose for anything - you just walk straight and strong and be clear. We are all born…

— Bibhu Mohapatra

The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then…

— John Silber

Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long…

— Max Horkheimer

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive.…

— Carl Sagan

“The boundaries of this world are forever shifting – from day to night, joy to sorrow, love to hate, and from life…

— Michael Cox

Contrary to popular opinion, the most important characteristic of a godly mother is not her relationship with her children. It is her…

— Anonymous

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

The mandated description of fetal characteristics at two-week intervals, no matter how objective, is plainly overinclusive. [It is] not medical information that…

— Harry A. Blackmun

If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by…

— Dmitriy Ustinov

A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who…

— John Climacus

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all…

— Mark Twain

I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to…

— Lance Armstrong

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or…

— Michael Crichton

Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.

— Clare Morrall

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

— Benjamin Disraeli

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

— John Hurt

The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.

— Tim Lee

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.

— Richard Armitage

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

— Mary Livermore

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

— Lisa Rinna

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

— James S. Coleman

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

— Noam Chomsky

It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable