Characteristics Quotes

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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to… — Walter Bagehot
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. — Dave Barry
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. — Emma Bonino
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity. — Edward de Bono
The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge… — Kobe Bryant
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. — Warren Buffett
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good… — Giacomo Casanova
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. — Noam Chomsky
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. — Emile M. Cioran
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world… — William J. Clinton
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers,… — Jean Cocteau
I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty. — Summer Altice
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis
Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which… — Walt Kelly
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy… — Hannah Arendt

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