Characteristics Quotations

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

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

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.

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

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.

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time.

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

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

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

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

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

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

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

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

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

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

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

I despise in others my own characteristics.

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

The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

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

You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

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

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

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

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

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

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

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

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 is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

As much as we admire all the characteristics of a Ronald Reagan, as soon as something goes wrong, people will hate those same characteristics.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.