Characteristic Quotes

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. Jane Goodall
War Me History Behavior First Back Characteristic Purely Seemed Date Records Had Written Almost Always Very Accounts Human Human Behavior Warlike Human History Groups Universal
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. Janet Malcolm
Thought Way Characteristic Journalistic Sine Himself His Subject Quotation Fidelity Expressing
Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song. Janna Levin
Song Black Characteristic Black Holes Drum Very Bang Holes Against
I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more. Jenny Han
Character You Think Defining Characteristic About More Part Identity Always Want Race Whole
Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. Jeremy Paxton
People Matter Greed Rich Living Characteristic Has-Been Seeking Prevailing Economic Facing Individuals Prospect Armageddon Beyond Mess Because Been Governments Quick Get Whether Means Now Why
I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it. Jimmy Page
You Guitar Characteristic Identity Hear Trying Just Play Here
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta. Johannes Stark
Light Atoms Waves Characteristic Only Come Accelerate Frequency Chemical Conditions Familiar Form Length Certain Electric Electromagnetic Specific Oscillation
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. John Desmond Bernal
Science Long Characteristic Possible Proof Seized Advance Scientist Any Essence Often Explanations Full
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. Jose Saramago
Attitude Alien Others Relationships Characteristic Insolent American Form Them
I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager. Julia Roberts
You Think Enough Teenager Characteristic Valued Through Most Said Discover Cannot Literature
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts. Laurie Helgoe
Silence Privacy Culture Communication Value Values Style Unlike Say Those Characteristic East East Asia Direct Restraint More Finland Individualism Noisy Qualities Dominant Germany America Which Asia Fast-Paced Societies Associated
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. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Music People Characteristic Vastly Know How Improved Fewer Just Reproduction Should Who Mechanics Played
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century. Marcel Duchamp
First Beginning Adding Our Characteristic Distortion Some Color Simplified Abstraction Toward Since Terms Impressionist After Which Again Century Then Landscape Reason Painter
The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth. Maria Montessori
Man Degree Animals Mouth Sense Organ Characteristic Touch Highest Highest Degree Hand Human While Grasp Functions Two
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large. Martin Van Buren
Government Benefits Will Community Diffusion Characteristic Distinguishing Advantage Individuals Augmented Burdens Expense Should Large Whose
Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.' Max von Sydow
Great You Sense Of Humor Humor Sense Bergman Characteristic Laugh Recognized Had He Great Sense Always Very Theater Show Special Watch Here Tonight
The most characteristic aspects of the Clintons, a political couple who might otherwise largely see themselves as practical-minded centrist consensus builders, is, of course, how much personal hatred they inspire. Michael Wolff
Inspire Political Hatred Otherwise Characteristic See Most Couple Course Builders How How Much Personal Centrist Might Themselves Much Aspects Who Largely Consensus
Donald Trump has been both a peculiar and characteristic American figure for more than three decades. Inheriting a small New York real-estate development company from his father, he parlayed it not so much into a big real-estate company, but himself into a fantasy of a big real-estate developer. Michael Wolff
Father Three Big Characteristic Has-Been More Small Both He Developer Development New Himself Been His Trump Than Decades American Donald York Donald Trump New York Fantasy Much Figure Company Peculiar
I'm very Aries - every characteristic, good and the bad. Molly Qerim
Good Every Characteristic Bad Aries Very
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. Muriel Rukeyser
People Strikes Characteristic Poetry Obscure Parts Arrangement Modern Being Modern Poetry Which Many Violent
I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Alone Home Together Mother Sister Living Characteristic Independent Since Like Always According Friends Childhood Preferred Lived
I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing. Neil Peart
Myself Simple Try Own Unless Characteristic Rush Something My Own Songs Feel Repeat Fills Thing
I just like winning every tournament that I play. All of them are important for me. Each has its own history, its own characteristic, but they are all important. Neymar
Me History Important Own Every Characteristic Winning Tournament Like Just Them Each Play
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition. Octavio Paz
Old Criticism Characteristic Constant Feature Over New Tradition Continuity Contrast Against Modernity Set
I'm a recording artist, a performing artist and a producing artist. All those things have everything to do with the outcome of my shows. I get myself studying every part of the game and not everyone has the characteristic to do that. In my mind, you need all three to become an artist. PartyNextDoor
Myself You Game Mind Three Recording Become Every Everyone Everything Those Characteristic Outcome Recording Artist Part Studying Performing Get Artist Producing Shows Things Need
Something that is characteristic of me is the breadth of my interests. Paul Allen
Me Characteristic Something Breadth Interests
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