Traits Quotes

475 Traits quotes by 410 unique authors

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything… — Linus Torvalds
Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land… — Stewart Udall
I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman. — David Walliams
You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood… — Helen Fisher
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about… — Diane Setterfield
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. — Marilynne Robinson
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that… — Michel Foucault
Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive.… — Temple Grandin
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian,… — Vera Nazarian
He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though… — Nicholas Sparks
I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it… — Deb Caletti
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions… — Sam Savage
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the… — Carson McCullers
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the… — Neal Stephenson
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil. — Julius Lester
He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they… — Emily Giffin
You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes… — Megan McCafferty
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another. — Dean Koontz
Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into… — Jeaniene Frost
Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and… — Douglas Coupland

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