Characteristic Quotes

“And they are deformed though it does not show on the outside. I live only my dwarf life. I never go around tall and smooth-featured. I am ever myself, always the same, I live one life alone. I have no other being inside me. And I recognize everything within me, nothing ever comes up from my inner depths, nothing there is shrouded in mystery. Therefore I do not fear the things which frighten them, the incoherent, the unknown, the mysterious. Such things do not exist for me. There is nothing "different" about me.”
― Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf

“The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.”
― Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science

“Having autism is a characteristic, not a character.”
― Michael McCreary, Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum

“To possess a rich life of wholeness that brings happiness into the soul; is to show loving and caring characteristic traits toward others.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“There’s something in you that’s like biting on tinfoil.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Religious extremism is fatal to those who don't conform to its values, or remold or submit themselves to its 'principles'. It craves control and power - and power is the one tool that enables it to wreak its characteristic havoc, destruction and cruelty upon those it chooses to label as scapegoats. Giving in to extremists enables them and empowers them - and worse, it encourages them.”
― Christina Engela

“Even bitter things can taste delicious if you add sugar to them. Politeness matters!”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“One of Mr. Geard's deepest characteristics, a characteristic wherein his long line of Saxon ancestors, preserving their obstinate identity under centuries of Norman tyranny, had provided the basis, and his own singular psychic aplomb the magnetic poise, was his power of relaxing his whole being and enjoying physical sensations without the least self-consciousness or embarrassment in anyone's presence. This characteristic, this complete absence of nervous self-consciousness, always had a reassuring effect upon women, children and animals, as it doubtless would have had upon savages.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance

“Low calcium is characteristic of COVID-19.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements