Characteristics Quotes

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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. — Emily Greene Balch
If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is… — J. R. D. Tata
My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is… — Mike Greenberg
Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing. — Edward T. Hall
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have… — Aldo Leopold
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as… — Anthony Giddens
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of… — Anthony Giddens
I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the… — Michael Chang
The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would… — Stanley Ho
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial… — Tom Glazer
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic. — E. M. Delafield
Which is the most universal human characteristic: Fear or laziness? — Louis Mackey
In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is… — Naomi Wolf
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many… — William Jackson
A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his… — Mary Antin
One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms… — Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you… — Bonnie Wright
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is… — C.S. Lewis
Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It… — David R. Hawkins
The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of… — Raymond B. Fosdick
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's… — Bodhidharma
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied… — Hu Shih
Our heavenly bodies are going to be similar to our present ones, only better. We'll look enough like we do now to recognize and identify… — David Berg
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

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