Characteristic Quotes

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Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a… — Amin Maalouf
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.… — George Orwell
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. — Gary Zukav
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is… — Simone Weil
But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind… — Chuck Klosterman
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands… — Tana French
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. — Isaac Asimov
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's… — Stephen King
I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic. — Nick Hornby
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as… — Marisha Pessl
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness… — Viktor E. Frankl
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. — Robert A. Heinlein
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw… — Wystan Hugh Auden
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity â€“ that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment,… — Charles Baudelaire
Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol:… — Andy Warhol
That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to… — Anne Carson
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men — George S. Patton
Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who… — Lynne Truss

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