Characteristics Quotes

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I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My charactersâ€”I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters… — Georges Simenon
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
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.… — Bret Easton Ellis
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel
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
Rather than accepting that we are the loving beings that He created, we have arrogantly thought that we could create ourselves, and then create God.… — Marianne Williamson
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
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me. — Susanna Kaysen
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
The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When… — James Redfield
I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic. — Nick Hornby
None of us is perfect. There was only one perfect man who ever walked the earth, and He was the Son of God. We all… — Gordon B. Hinckley
No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us — Simon R. Green
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
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he… — Douglas Adams
If you are a member of a small group or class, I urge you to make a group covenant that includes the nine characteristics of… — Rick Warren

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