while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
Johnny Storm is such an iconic character. There's a lot of personality traits and things to him that people are really going… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
“Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility. — Bob Crosby Copy Share Image
None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing… — Sufyan al-Thawri Copy Share Image
Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We should strive to develop within ourselves the traits of character of the Savior. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
There exists a "fear of freedom" of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy.… — Gil Blake Copy Share Image
It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The gift of giving and paying it forward has always been traits I consider to be invaluable. — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
