Attributes Quotes

• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

  

  William James
  • Feels
  • Alive
  • Particular

• This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Believe
  • Differences
  • Clouds

• There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Born
  • Facts
  • Sections

• True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Speech
  • Attributes
  • True And False

• God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Difficult
  • Rooms
  • Forgiving

• God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Order
  • Scripture
  • Clear

• Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Power
  • Society
  • Attributes

• Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • People
  • Human
  • Flaws

• Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Help
  • Attributes
  • Imperfections

• I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Moments
  • Opinion
  • Possession

• The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Important
  • Attributes
  • Toughness

• Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Men
  • Faces
  • Social

• The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes characterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not folded. She struts, she does not sweep. She has not one of the attributes of nature nor of proper art. She neither soothes the eye like a flower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effects.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Art
  • Girl
  • Characterize

• Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion?

  

  William Buckland
  • Evidence
  • Efficient
  • Geology

• The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

  

  William Benton Clulow
  • Growth
  • Fame
  • Compare

• The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.

  

  African Spir
  • God
  • Worship
  • Physical

• One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.

  

  William Segal
  • Growing
  • Hate
  • Humans

• Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

  

  William Everson
  • Sanctity
  • Orchestration
  • Wholes

• There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Identity
  • Certain
  • Folks

• We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes which he possesses. They are in us, and they make us God's embryo, We believe that as we are now God once was, and by the practice of virtue and righteousness, by obedience unto law and authority, He has become what He is, and as He is, man may become, on the same principle.

  

  George F. Richards
  • Children
  • Obedience
  • Righteousness

• When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Judgment
  • Misfortunes
  • Dissent

• Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

  

  William Feather
  • Individual
  • Enthusiasm
  • Fine

• Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Attributes
  • Combinations
  • Colours

• Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • God
  • Justice
  • Shines

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