He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons. — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky. — Tom Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one. — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
“Courage is the chiaroscuro of characteristics. By that I mean I don’t know what I mean.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. Thesequalities characterize the middle classes in every country, but in England they are national… — Edward Morgan Forster Copy Share Image
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
We have to be careful that we don't keep multiplying disorders and diluting them. I think there is a difference. People talk… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
You have lived longer than I have and perhaps may have formed a different judgment on better grounds; but my observations do… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.” — Marc Pamittan Copy Share Image
When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. — Ana Gasteyer Copy Share Image
No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word. — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature. — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
