Attributes Quotes
530 quotes by 447 authors
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The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public – how can…
— Ari Ne'eman
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There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive…
— Arlene Dickinson
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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if…
— Russell Conwell
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Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to…
— Kinky Friedman
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People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
— Dorothy Parker
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You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods,…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
— Emile M. Cioran
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True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or…
— Desmond Tutu
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I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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Virgin, is how good you are with people. If you're - if you're good with people and you've got - you know, and you really…
— Richard Branson
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much…
— Marie Antoinette
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Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth,…
— John Fowles
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There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was…
— Saint Augustine
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Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.
— Michael Wright
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The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each…
— Bertrand Russell
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