I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with…

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so…

— Anatoly Karpov

They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have…

— Gloria Steinem

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.

— Maria Montessori

To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.

— Fred Hollows

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires…

— John Foster Dulles

The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to…

— Dalai Lama

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

— David W. Orr

Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance,…

— Anthony Standen

I'm someone that likes to not think too binary about human qualities.

— Tessa Thompson

My approach to politics is very serious. It must be handled by great people with extraordinary skills and human qualities. I feel I don't…

— Balachandra Menon

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are…

— Fanny Kemble

From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion…

— Howard Bloom

I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together.…

— Hiro Murai

Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole -…

— William O. Douglas

I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,…

— Marcel Proust