Attributes Quotes

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Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything… — Michael Bassey
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive. — William James
The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On… — John Quincy Adams
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far… — John Ruskin
Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it… — Mahatma Gandhi
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once… — Michel de Montaigne
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of… — Ambrose Bierce
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. — Douglas Adams
The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. — Joel Salatin
I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be… — Claude Monet
The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very… — Michael Pollan
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. — Thomas Hobbes
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory — John Fletcher
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he… — Northrop Frye
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the… — George Farquhar
The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius. — Walter J. Phillips
Six Flags has to be a destination, but it's got to be a place that you want to go to every single summer and you… — Mark Shapiro
Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of… — Abraham Coles

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