Characterize

Famous quotes containing the word characterize:

    Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in every country, but in England they are national characteristics.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    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.”
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.
    Albert Einstein (1879–1955)