Attributes Quotes
530 quotes by 447 authors
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Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels.…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because…
— Jean Cocteau
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[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all…
— Aristophanes
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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
— Arthur C. Clarke
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For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her many talents, these…
— Natsuo Kirino
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It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
— Albert Einstein
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Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit…
— Winston Churchill
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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it to the superior…
— Oscar Wilde
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The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens…
— C.S. Lewis
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
— Markus Zusak
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Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery…
— Roald Dahl
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I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure…
— George Saunders
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A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for…
— Rumi
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The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never…
— Henry Hazlitt
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I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we…
— Clarence Darrow
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You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for…
— Philip Roth
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Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a…
— Aristotle
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You ever taunt me with Tasha again," she said in a harsh whisper when they broke the kiss to gasp for air, "and I will…
— Nalini Singh
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