91 Quotes About Characteristics

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. The characteristics of the person in love must be attributed to love itself.

He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He had a look of wariness, which could change when he felt relaxed or happy, which was not often in these difficult days, into a smile of amused friendliness and pleasure which aroused feelings of warmth, and something more, in many women.

Watch your step or you might fall, you act like your a know-it-all. yeah, I used to do that, used to be like that, still a bit like that.

Ashe, Kiever, Peters; that was a progression in quality, in authority, which to Leamas was axiomatic of the hierarchy of an intelligence network. It was also, he suspected, a progression in ideology. Ashe, the mercenary, Kiever the fellow traveler, and now Peters, for whom the end and the means were identical.

En voi huijata. En voi tehdä mitään leikisti. Jopa nyt olen vielä vahva. Minut on alistettava. Aivan kuten merta, isoäitiäni, ei voi muuttaa, minuakaan ei voi muuttaa - minut voi vain valloittaa." Hänen hartiansa lysähtivät. "Mutta olisin mieluummin lempeä. Ja rakastettu. Ja olisin toivomatta mitään, koskaan.

G. wollte ohne Zweifel, wenn nicht der unmittelbare Nachfolger M.s, doch früher oder später Minister werden. Er hatte auch das Zeug dazu,  viel mehr als A., weil er weniger Eitelkeit und mehr Patriotismus und Charakter besaß; freilich auch mehr Zorn und Galle, die sich vermöge der ihm innewohnenden Energie als Subtrahenda von seiner praktischen Leistung geltend machten. 

It is our actions that define who we are not only as individuals, but as a community and a people. Not by the blood that flows in our veins nor the words that leave our lips...

Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.