Characterizes Quotes

It's the increasingly partisan rancor that characterizes the Congress. The very partisan Republican orientation of the House is not very well received. The public wants compromises to be reached and they generally don't see many of those things taking place in Congress these days. - Mark DiCamillo

I'm honored to have been asked to speak at the event... Convocations have special meaning for academicians. We hope to be able to share the excitement and the potential as well as the solemnity that characterizes the opening of the school year. - Janie Fouke

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. - Richard Rosen

I think it characterizes the volatility we've been seeing on the Nasdaq. The economic signals are too mixed to start speculating that we are at the end of the problem. - Ulric Weil

Everyone was affected by it. We included her in our team prayer before the game, and when we put on the wristbands, that characterizes what she means to us and that we're going to remember her. - Courtney Price

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing / he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. - Lionel Trilling

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself / civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape. - Henry Miller