Distinguishing Characteristics Quotes

#1. I have said that one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great man is that his active intervention makes what seemed highly improbable in fact happen.

Isaiah Berlin

#2. One must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is. (Page 106)

Karen Marie Moning

#3. Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

Robert M. Hutchins

#5. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

Edward Lucie-Smith

#6. I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. That's the point, it's out of date now,

Douglas Adams

#8. There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.

Gaston Bachelard

#9. She'd rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.

J.M. Darhower

#10. You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

Miles Davis

#11. Be a fountain of love and joy so that everyone can see, feel, and enjoy it.

Debasish Mridha

#12. I love it when people say that something can't be done. That's when I really get motivated; I like to prove them wrong.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#13. At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

#14. Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. The best thing we can do to save the planet is set a good example for our kids at home.

Letitia Baldrige

#16. Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician - but they would recognize the brain of a professional musician without moment's hesitation.

Oliver Sacks