Qualities Quotes

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Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. — Ambrose Bierce
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does. — Confucius
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.... — Dean Koontz
But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of… — Emily Bronte
If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure… — John O'Donohue
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same. — Lisa See
There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence,… — Miguel de Cervantes
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very… — Leo Tolstoy
What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter… — Michael Ondaatje
My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities… — Allen Ginsberg
When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor… — Martin Buber
For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice… — Aristotle
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. — Jeremy Bentham
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I… — W. Somerset Maugham
My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find… — Hermann Hesse
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat… — Henry David Thoreau
I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. — Nick Hornby
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it,… — Mortimer Adler
The things we hope for lead us to faith, while the things we hope in lead us to charity. The three qualities faith, hope, and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So must the desire… — Tonya Hurley
Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith — Khalil Gibran
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in… — Wendell Berry

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