Characterized Quotes

148 quotes by 144 authors

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of… — Bill Bryson
Driven by a wish to save TomÃ¡s from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together,… — Nicholas Sparks
They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not characterized by a… — Veronica Roth
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of… — Aberjhani
When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and… — Mary Catherine Bateson
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth… — Alex Carey
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own… — Janine Benyus
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue,… — Daniel J. Boorstin
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer… — Thomas Kuhn
Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools… — Paul Johnson
The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development. — Margaret Heffernan
When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are… — Donnie Yen
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material… — Andy Behrman
The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation,… — David Novak
America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States. — David Scott
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone… — Karen Abbott
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise. — Harold E. Varmus
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and… — Joanna Scott
No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek. — Herbert Simon

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