Good Characteristic Quotes

#1. I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#2. Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. Feeling better?"
"If I say no, will you kiss me again?"
"I'll kiss you either way.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

A.J.P. Taylor

#5. You don't look like a genie."
"Palazzo pants and sequined vests don't cut it in the United States.

Elizabeth Langston

#6. Managers who aspire to be ethical must challenge the assumption that they're always unbiased and acknowledge that vigilance, even more than good intention, is a defining characteristic of an ethical manager.

Harvard Business School Press

#7. I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

#8. Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

Patrick Henry

#9. One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.

Venita VanCaspel

#10. The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

John Hay

#11. Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.

M.F.K. Fisher

#12. Perhaps the most defining characteristic of a superhero is a willingness to sacrifice for the good of others, even to the point of laying down his or her own life.

Rachel Hawkins

#13. For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Christopher Ricks

#14. Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Shirley Hazzard

#15. She slapped him. Hard. "Tell me!" she screamed, "TELL ME!".
"The truth is...I am a liar," Jack said quietly.
"Don't be one with me," she sobbed, "it hurts."
"The lies or the truth?" he asked.

Abhik Chatterjee

#16. Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

Lin Yutang

#17. attacker. The tusks on a hippo too are formidable weapons that are used to good effect against rivals, or as a threat display (their characteristic open-mouthed yawn). All tusks are in fact elongated

Patrick Brakspear

#18. The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.

Oswald Chambers

#19. It's funny how we hate to face realities. I knew a commuter once who rode in town every day on the 8.13. But he used to call it the 7.73. He said it made him feel more virtuous.

Christopher Morley

#20. The most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

Agnes Repplier

#21. If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.

Percy Cerutty

#22. Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.

C.S. Lewis

#23. I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Lana Del Rey

#24. I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

Jimmy Breslin

#25. I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.

Anson Mount

#26. What I learned from being around great icons like Calvin Klein is that the great fashion trendsetters don't change their look every season. They have a look, and they update maybe a piece per season.

Elizabeth Rogers

#27. You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.

Jack Welch

#28. By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.

Errico Malatesta

#29. And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.

Aristotle.

#30. We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.

George Soros

#31. Because I believe in God, I believe the Good, what's right, is worth fighting for. - John Barrett Jr.

Frank E. Peretti

#32. I'm a good listener. I think it's the one characteristic that's most important. I've always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you've got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. And just go for it.

Tom Cruise

#33. Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.

Tim Fargo

#34. Do you believe in other universes? Do you think there's another dimension where we're happy?

Jasmine Warga

#35. ... sentiments which Feliks had already come to recognise as being characteristic of The Times, which would have described the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as strong rulers who could do nothing but good for the stability of the international situation.

Ken Follett

#36. Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

Richard Steele

#37. A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new.

Carl Rogers

#38. The NYPD with the unconditional support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stopped-and-frisked more black men than there are black men in New York City. Institutionalized racial discrimination in the United States is alive and well.

Chris Hayes

#39. Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

Robert Green Ingersoll