It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.
We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.
It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.
Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization.
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.
I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.
Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic.
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.
Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened,. . False memories have these characteristics too.
Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.
You know, what we list as a hate group are groups that vilify or defame entire groups of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.
I am proud to say that the Federalist Society was founded in part at the University of Chicago, and one of its best characteristics has been an attack on liberal shibboleths by looking at real consequences and specific problems and by asking what law actually does.
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christ-like characteristics.
Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.