Transitive Quotes

#1. It will be seen that the Infinitive is a kind of noun with certain features of the verb, especially that of taking an object (when the verb is Transitive) and adverbial qualifiers. In short, the Infinitive is a Verb-Noun.

H. Martin

#2. Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.

William Ames

#3. Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

Gordon W. Allport

#4. Family is a transitive property.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and houses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

Amitav Ghosh

#7. I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don't think this is just a function of technology. It's also a function of cultural preference.

Joshua Cohen

#8. This is a dynamic particular to encounters with male drivers, who seem to grow all the more indignant the more completely they are in the wrong. I think the emotional reasoning, if you can call it that, is transitive: You make me feel bad; feeling mad makes me mad; ergo, you make me mad.

Lionel Shriver

#9. He resented our oddness without the rest of the equation. He felt left out even though he knew the stories of the origins. By the transitive property, he shouldn't have liked her since he didn't like her handiwork, but somehow he stubbornly never did that math.

Jamie Mason

#10. My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

Jared Harris

#11. Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

Jay McInerney

#12. Don't give me your knives. Don't give up. Don't you dare give up.

Jennifer Estep

#13. There comes a moment in life when we see ourselves as others see us. I suppose that is part of growing up, and it is not always comfortable. Eanflaed,

Bernard Cornwell

#14. All forms of achievements are all a triumph of discipline.

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#16. if you love to behave rude properly, you need to learn to be polite first, from the deep of your mind.

Viplob Pratik

#17. There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

Arnold Rothstein

#18. The harvest comes in if workers go out in the field

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you'll become a believer!

Buck Brannaman

#20. The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet of soft green, and the skies above our house were filled with choruses of birdsong once again.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#21. A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

Nelson Mandela