Quotes of: Traits Keyword

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

Jude Law

Moms are not perfect—we are being perfected.

9 Traits of a Life-Giving Mom: Replacing My Worst with Gods Best

I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.

Peter Dinklage

Two distinctive traits especially identify beyond a doubt a strong and dominant character. One trait is contempt for external circumstances, when one is convinced that men ought to respect, to desire, and to pursue only what is moral and right, that ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The world hangs like a heart-shaped locket around my neck.

Woman of Influence: Ten Traits of Those Who Want to Make a Difference

You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.

George R. R. Martin

When it is time for a season to change, the imperfections of life are most visible.

9 Traits of a Life-Giving Mom: Replacing My Worst with Gods Best

Love, I have always known, is an evolutionary trait. It is a delicately tuned, intricate, sensitive impulse, but a trait nevertheless, a reaction honed by millions of years of an ever-changing and complex mating instinct.

David Bajo

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.

Jeffrey Eugenides

If we, as mothers, are not careful we can begin to find our identity in our children and their behavior

9 Traits of a Life-Giving Mom: Replacing My Worst with Gods Best

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

Woman of Influence: Ten Traits of Those Who Want to Make a Difference

Write down five character traits you admire most in your personal heroes. You now have a list of traits to emulate in your own life.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offs...

Nick Bostrom

To the Greeks, the word "character" first referred to the stamp upon a coin. By extension, man was the coin, and the character trait was the stamp imprinted upon him. To them, that trait, for example bravery, was a share of something all mankind had,...

The Greek Way

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it...

Marcus Tullius Cicero

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

Marvin Bower

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedn...

Autobiography

Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

Adam DeVine

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, mea...

Cannery Row

Sexual conflict occurs when one mating partner has an opportunity to increase its fitness at a cost to the other partner. On a genetic level, most sexual conflicts are interlocus conflicts that mainly concern the outcome of male-female interactions a...

Love

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

Peter Hook