Quotes About Characteristic

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Thompson is a typical American: wide feet, good jab; he'll try to have a fight.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

The other characteristic trait of the spiritual man is that he is upside down. This means to say, firstly, that the "solid ground" under his feet is found above, whilst the ground below is only the concern and perception of the head.

Washington instinctively trod the fine line between showiness and austerity, defining a characteristic style of understated elegance.

La mayoría de los hombres tienen el dedo anular más largo que el dedo índice, y la mayoría de las mujeres tienen el índice más largo que el anular.

Thereby thought is led on to something which also is characteristic of official Christianity, the unmanliness of using cunning, untruth and lies as its power. That again is very characteristic of official Christianity, which, being itself an untruth, uses a prodigious amount of untruth, both to hide what truth is, and to hide the fact that it is untruth.

The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.

The point is that the fatigue characteristic of such depression reasserts itself every time we repress strong emotions, play down the memories stored in the body, and refuse them the attention they clamor for.

This was my first indication of the quality I feel is most characteristic of Zora's work: racial health; a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Mr Philpotts was a chemistry master whose principal characteristic lay in a sort of unfocused vehemence

It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.

If you look at Indian cinema, it has always been about the 'hero.' So it is not just a characteristic of the Kannada film industry in particular. But one of the reasons to explain the 'hero-centrism' in our industry could be the fact that the audience here really enjoys the action sequences and the 'punch' dialogues.

A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.

Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.

He offered to parade for me a series of examples—famous military figures who were frozen in adolescence. I declined the offer. I have read my history with care and have recognized this characteristic for myself." Moneo turned and looked directly into Idaho's eyes.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

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 first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

If a defining characteristic of the modern world is disorder, then the most fundamental act of resistance is to establish order.

Anxiety is not an affect among other affects, such as pleasure or sadness. It is rather an ontological characteristic of man, rooted in his very existence as such.