Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics.
Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.
Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.
There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.
Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.
Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged
The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God.
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.
There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.
If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.
The female love interest is boring to me. A female that's interesting, smart, funny - that's what I'm drawn to. I wouldn't say that every character has to be smart, but she has to have one trait I can relate to.
Impulsiveness is not a trait one would choose for a person with the power to launch the U. S. nuclear arsenal.
Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''
Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.
My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.