Top 144 Characterize Quotes & Sayings

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

I would never and did not ever characterize myself as a hippie.

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

A lot of people characterize women as more cautious. I don't think that's an inappropriate characterization, but that's not a natural thing we're born with, it's something that comes about.

To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind.

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

I think his [Donald's Trump] objection would be to biased and unfair, which is not the way he characterize "Fox News" to me, anyway. But we're all looking for objective coverage.

Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.

It's the oldest trick in Washington - when presented with a policy solution you don't like, characterize it as the bogeyman.

It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans.

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice.

Unfortunately, as inspiring as people find Barack Obama, change can be interpreted in so many different ways. I think he might do a great deal of good things for social programs here in America and as well, as much as people want to characterize anybody who's a leader and try and sell that, and market it and characterize them in a good way or a bad way, I think it's very telling about the system that we have when we come to the realization that the war is not going to end.

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated.

I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play

We behavioralists differ from our more traditional brethren in the way we characterize agents in the economy.

It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.

I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

Senator [Bernie] Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying the establishment.

I prefer other people to make judgments about the way I play and to characterize me, rather me describe myself.

Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.

If you're openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, adultery, fornication, premarital sex between heterosexuals, whatever it may be, I believe that's walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ. I would not characterize that person as a Christian because I do not think the Bible would characterize them as a Christian.

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position.

Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?

I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.

It's hard for me to label myself or characterize myself.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.