Attributes Quotes · Page 4

Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not…

— Chinua Achebe

Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is…

— George Will

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a…

— Sherwood Anderson

I attribute being a good center fielder to many things, but being outside with friends as a kid, running around and racing,…

— Torii Hunter

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are…

— Mark Twain

“Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgment…

— Charles H. Percy

Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to…

— Ernest Holmes

What is the result of our investigation of the Moslem idea of God? Is the statement of the Koran true, "Your God…

— Samuel Marinus Zwemer

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man…

— Thales

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is…

— John Searle

I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the…

— Elie Wiesel

I've been fortunate, I've been blessed, and I attribute my success to all my fans. People want to do things with you…

— Larry the Cable Guy

“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”

— William Everson

Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all one common…

— Robert Montgomery

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism…

— Henry Rollins

God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.

— Rumi

God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a…

— Stephen Charnock

Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years…

— Rose Macaulay

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the…

— Al-Ghazali

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than…

— Mark Ronson

Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take…

— Ron Santo

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to…

— Maria Tatar

A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it...…

— Dorotheus of Gaza