Quotes for All
It is true that ‘I seem to see a table’ does not entail ‘I see a table’; but ‘I seem to feel a pain’ does entail ‘I feel a pain’. So scepticism loses its force – cannot open up its characteristic gap – with regard to that which ultimately most concerns us, pleasure and pain. … Read more
My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better…to have a purpose beyond one’s self lends to existence a meaning and direction – the most important characteristic of high well-being. Gail Sheehy
[Ella Baker]’s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership… ‘She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge’. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. Gail Collins
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite. G. Stanley Hall
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy. G. M Gilbert
The first thing, the very very first thing, Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness. Each one’s is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody … Read more
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed. Evelyn Waugh
I’m very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I’m a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign. Evangeline Lilly
I’d love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. I’m definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don’t want ‘sexy’ to be my defining characteristic. Eva Mendes
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. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky