Characteristic Quotes

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Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. — Richard Harris
I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and… — Zoey Deutch
Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy. — Reinhold Niebuhr
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical,… — A.J. Ayer
The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then sit down as… — John Silber
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by… — Oswald Chambers
Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan. — William Deresiewicz
The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of… — Thomas Addison
We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in… — Margaret Thatcher
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. — Roman Jakobson
The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action,… — Jerome Bruner
To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is… — Arthur Eddington
Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of… — John Dewey
Passion is not a quality that is foreign to you. It is not a characteristic that some people are born with and some must do… — Barbara De Angelis
The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty.... Perhaps… — Clinton Rossiter
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the… — Arthur C. Clarke
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are… — Thomas B. Macaulay
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn… — Tom Landry
Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

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