Attribute Quotes

308 quotes by 268 authors

Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence may appear to… — Faraaz Kazi
Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the… — Chuck D
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture… — Elihu Palmer
The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they… — Andrew Dickson White
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its… — M. Scott Peck
We are born male. We must learn to be men. Remember, strength is a force. It is an attribute of the heart. Its opposite is… — Kent Nerburn
Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense… — Albert Einstein
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. — Maria Bartiromo
Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life… — Tristan Tzara
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real… — Aphra Behn
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? — C.S. Lewis
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute… — Patricia J. Williams
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such… — John Searle
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact,… — Cornelius Castoriadis
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and… — Maria Tatar
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance. — Harold S. Kushner
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has… — Katharine Graham
I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions. — Derek Jeter
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality.… — Catharine MacKinnon
It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of… — Stacy Schiff

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