Characteristic Quotes

466 quotes by 382 authors

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington. — Daniel J. Boorstin
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. — Benjamin Disraeli
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but… — William Hazlitt
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the… — Aristotle
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. — Henry Fielding
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through… — Salman Rushdie
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping… — Annie Besant
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man. — Jacob Bronowski
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often… — Abraham Maslow
For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied… — Prince Philip
Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic… — Rex Harrison
If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick. — Farley Mowat
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by… — R. H. Tawney
The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. — David Attenborough
In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been… — Federica Montseny
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country… — Theodore Roosevelt
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and… — Richard Steele
More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last… — Benjamin Cardozo
The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead. — Theodore Roosevelt

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