Attribute Quotes

308 quotes by 268 authors

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will… — Victor Hugo
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth… — William Shakespeare
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had… — Ayn Rand
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded… — Albert Camus
I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to… — John Connolly
There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil.… — Agatha Christie
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to… — Albert Camus
You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same… — Naomi Klein
Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself… — Epictetus
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst. — Bernard Beckett
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. — Bertrand Russell
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object… — Roland Barthes
We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by;… — Thomas Hardy
I believe that Godâ€”if he exists at allâ€”is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up… — Michael Thomas Ford
Octoberâ€” You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your… — Mira Grant
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying… — Bertrand Russell
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could… — Tom Robbins
You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. â€”Tybalt — Mira Grant
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute — Amartya Sen

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