Traits famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
-- Chuck Jones -
I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
-- David Walliams -
The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.
-- Dean Koontz -
I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.
-- Diane Keaton -
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
-- Edith Hamilton -
I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
-- Giorgio Armani -
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.
-- Giovanni Ruffini -
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
-- Hosea Ballou -
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.
-- Julius Lester -
We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.
-- Lisa Lutz -
One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
-- Lorna Luft -
Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.
-- Matthew Engel -
Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.
-- Mira Nair -
There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.
-- Morley Callaghan -
When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait
-- Natasha Friend -
We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.
-- Noel Gallagher -
A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,
-- Pascal Boyer -
Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.
-- Paul Henderson -
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.
-- Ruth Benedict -
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
-- V. S. Naipaul -
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
-- Van Wyck Brooks -
I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate to all of the characters.
-- Cherien Dabis -
The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in a competitive environment. Moreover simplification of data, and indeed judicious falsification, are adaptive traits.
-- Julian Young -
Although self-control is inheritable and does run in families and has a genetic component, it's more like height than anything else. Height is one of the most strongly inherited traits that human beings have and yet when we improve the nutrition of the population everybody gets taller. So you can shift the entire population by an effective intervention.
-- Terrie Moffitt
