Characterize Quotes

• There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider to be ideal societies; translating this into the language of mathematics, we might say that utopias bear a + sign. The other feature, organically growing out of the content, is to be found in the form: a utopia is always static; it is always descriptive and has no, of almost no, plot dynamics.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Features
  • Generic
  • Utopias

• Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be.

  

  David Graham Phillips
  • American
  • Army
  • Interests

• Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.

  

  Elizabeth Gould Davis
  • Humanitarian
  • Modern Society
  • Materialist

• This resource will enable us to fully analyze, characterize and control the quality of approved cell lines.

  

  Elias Zerhouni
  • Resource
  • Analyze
  • Characterize

• The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes characterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not folded. She struts, she does not sweep. She has not one of the attributes of nature nor of proper art. She neither soothes the eye like a flower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effects.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Art
  • Girl
  • Attributes

• I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms of limitation and delusion we place upon ourselves, and muster the courage to quit each one. Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

  

  Bo Lozoff
  • Practice
  • Courage
  • Limitation

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

  

  Richard Thaler
  • Economy
  • Traditional
  • Characterize