Attribute Quotes - page 2

I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos. (Brandon Boyd)
A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
Not seeing people permits one to attribute to them all possible perfections. View quote
Victor Hugo
Speaking of justice Truth is its handmaid, freedom is its child, peace is its companion, safety walks in its steps, victory follows in its train it is the brightest emanation from the Gospel it is the attribute of God. View quote
Sydney Smith
- 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 down when you can lie down. View quote
Winston Churchill
As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer. View quote
Larry Wall
So then, let us not attribute to God's actions and His dealings with us any idea of requital. Rather, we should speak of fatherly provision, a wise dispensation, a perfect will which is concerned with our good, and complete love. If it is a case of love, then it is not one of requital; and if it is a case of requital, then it is not one of love. Love, when it operates, is not concerned with the requiting of former things by means of its own good deeds or correction; rather, it looks to what is most advantageous in the future: it examines what is to come, and not things that are past. View quote
Isaac the Syrian
Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills. View quote
Sheryl Sandberg
Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour. (Guy Standing)
I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts. View quote
Arthur Erickson
I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy. View quote
Bob Lilly
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. View quote
Charles Kuralt
Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. View quote
Dirk Bogarde
My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions. View quote
Gina Gershon
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure. View quote
George Kennedy
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses. View quote
Johannes Peter Muller
Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more. View quote
Linda Chavez
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage. (Ralph Adams Cram)
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer. View quote
Teresa Wright
Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form. View quote
Victor Vasarely
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The comparison here implied between the actions of one of the higher animals and of one so low in the scale as an earth-worm, may appear far-fetched; for we thus attribute to the worm attention and some mental power, nevertheless I can see no reason to doubt the justice of the comparison. View quote
Charles Darwin