Best 196 quotes in «characteristics quotes» category

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

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 mediated by expert systems.

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

I despise in others my own characteristics.

If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture.

I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.

If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.

I have great confidence in human curiosity - even though I don't know what curiosity is from a biological point of view. One of its characteristics has got to be the willingness to explore.

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man.

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

It's not convincing to say you are a child of God if you have none of the characteristics of your Father.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar or almost identical to print that it can be misleading.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

It’s really important to understand that God is not an impersonal force. Even though He is invisible, God is personal and He has all the characteristics of a person. He knows, he hears, he feels and he speaks.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player