Characteristic Quotes

466 quotes by 382 authors

Why should humans in their unsurity decide what species are and are not important to humans? Is nature's characteristic ability to naturally select species not… — Ivan Urlaub
The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. — Laurie Anderson
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts — Heywood Broun
Not everything that is tangible is important, and not everything that is important is tangible. For example, you may study some statistics about a famous… — Melchor Lim
In a world full of masks, costumes and facades...weaving in and out of the traffic called life I still maintain my soul and the characteristic… — Unknown Author
The most important characteristic for a good communicator is the not the skill with which they communicate - it is having something to say! — Randy Vader
It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were. — Avrum Stroll
If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don'… — Andy Summers
Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with… — Stuart Symington
I embody every characteristic of the egotistic. — Kanye West
The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim… — George Orwell
The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an… — Oswald Spengler
There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Boredom is the exclusive characteristic of the ignorant. — Unknown Author
We Can Most Safely Achieve Truly Universal Tolerance When We Respect That Which Is Characteristic In The Individual And In Nations, Clinging, Though, To The… — Pacifiersucker
Now I must arrive at the time of my change from scientific rationality of thinking into the delusional thinking characteristic of persons... But I will… — John Nash
The first characteristic of sexual sin is deceit. It never delivers what it promises. It offers great satisfaction but gives great disappointment. It claims to… — John Macarthur
The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any science… — John Von Neumann
This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally of measurements, is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few… — James Clerk Maxwell
Nectar is at its sweetest. An attractive characteristic of the bush — Unknown Author

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