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We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
— James D. Watkins
Confidence, ultimately, is the characteristic that distinguishes those who imagine from those who do.
— Katty Kay
Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.
— Elizabeth Taylor
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights ...
— Ayn Rand
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.
— Jonathan Haidt
Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature. — Eraldo Banovac
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player
— Siegbert Tarrasch
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
— Alma Gluck
My tendency to make awkward situations even more ininappropriate and uncomfortable was such a charming characteristic.
— Olivia Harvard
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
— James Dyson
Love on one side was defeating love on the other, because it was characteristic of men to deny hunger once their appetites were satisfied.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex ...
— Gustave Flaubert
The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
— O. S. Hawkins
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantummechanics. — Erwin Schrodinger
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
— Richard Harris
Being thoughtful about the comfort and needs of the people who work in your home is a characteristic of a great Home Care CEO.
— Charisse Montgomery
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
— Brian Tracy
The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic. Bingley had never met
— Jane Austen
One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.
— Venita VanCaspel
Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing
— Paul Kalanithi
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
— George S. Patton Jr.
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
— Robert J. Shiller
It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put human face on random cosmic violence.
— Carl Sagan
It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.
— Melanie Klein
The spirit of faith is an inherent characteristic of any person that God is going to use.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight with it.
— Peter Ackroyd
Humility is the key characteristic of a worship leader. Actually, the key for any great leader.
— Chris Tomlin
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
— Albert Bandura
In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look reality in the face.
— Leon Trotsky
The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.
— Eleanor Catton
Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.
— Robertson Davies
Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.
— Sara Sheridan
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts,
— Louis Althusser
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
— Gustave Flaubert
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
— Aristotle.
The witnessing force behind mind, that characteristic self or spirit is called atman; the God in you.
— Gian Kumar
Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence.
— Matt Ridley
The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.
— Laurie Anderson
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.
— Edward Everett
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
— Rafael Vinoly
No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
— Kenneth L. Pike
Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.
— John C. Maxwell
All art has this characteristic-it unites people.
— Leo Tolstoy
Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?
— Amin Maalouf
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
— Edward T. Hall
Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.
— Joshua Stannard
One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.
— Edward Tenner
Prophecy is characteristic for the epic, prediction for the novel.
— Mikhail Bakhtin
I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
— Nick Hornby
Cinema's characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
— Satyajit Ray
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
— Henri Matisse
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
— Robert A. Heinlein
If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.
— Michael Ray
Stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
— Gertrude Atherton
I believe hip hop's characteristic beliefs as a whole are misunderstood, underappreciated and highly underestimated.
— Carlos Wallace
Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.
— Brian Tracy
The road, they said, was a place apart, a country of its own ruled by no government but natural law, and its one characteristic was freedom.
— Charles Frazier
The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.
— Doug Stanhope
All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.
— Winston Churchill
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
— Stephen Gardiner
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.
— George Mikes
If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
— Farley Mowat
The assumption that the square of a unit vectoris positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic
quantities are non-associative. — Cargill Gilston Knott
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
— Roman Jakobson
For a taste for variety is one of the characteristic passions of democracy.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.
— Harvey Cox
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
— Abraham Maslow
Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
— A.J.P. Taylor
