Quotes About Attributes

When a stranger comes into our presence, then, first appearances are likely to enable us to anticipate his category and attributes, his 'social identity' - to use a term that is better than 'social status' because personal attributes such as 'honesty' are involved, as well as structural ones, like 'occupation.'

Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim.

Objects are characterized by three essential properties: state, identity, and behavior.

The Genius populi Romani holds the patera for libations (sometimes in front of a lit altar) and the horn of plenty; these were attributes of the piety and felicity that symbolised Rome's vocation embodied by the emperor Pius Felix, two titles that had been added to his description since the time of Commodus.

the chief priest was a kind of 'pope' who very quickly acquired the prerogatives of the rex. Thus in 12 BC Augustus assumed its title and attributes.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.

Fear is sinful when it attributes to God characteristics that are inconsistent with His nature.

I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

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.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

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

What is this reason, with its universality, infallibility, exuberant certainty and obviousness? An ens rationis, a stuffed dummy which the howling superstition of our unreason endows with divine attributes.

As long as those adjectives used to describe me - charming, affable, punctual - don't mean that I'm dull, then that's fine. And I am polite - I was brought up to be that way.

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

Cristiano is direct and forceful, and has this fascination with goals.

Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

When I get a new player, we do tests about his character and personality because it is very important to find out about the things he loves to do on and off the pitch.

For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.

Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.

Los rasgos del carácter son "los anhelos apasionados relativamente permanentes".

If God's love is absolutely different from the highest and best notions of love as we derive them from Scripture itself (especially from Jesus Christ), then the term is simply meaningless when attached to God. One might as well say "God is creech-creech"—a meaningless assertion.