Characterize Quotes

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.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

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

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.

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

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.

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

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

Duke came to us. They volunteered to come to us and made a number of suggestions to some people on my staff. I don't know how I would characterize them, but there have been some discussions going back and forth between Duke and members of my staff.

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

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.

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

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

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