Quotes About Qualities

Ciascuno di noi ha più qualità di quel che non si creda, ma solo il successo le mette in luce, forse perché allora ci si aspetta di vederci smettere di esercitarle.

Nuestro gran error está en tratar de obtener de cada uno en particular las virtudes que no posee, descuidando cultivar aquellas que posee.

Mi-am folosit cât mai bine calit??ile, am profitat chiar de pe urma defectelor, dar nu È›in cu dinadinsul s? m? las moÈ™tenire cuiva.

How I would like that now, that sheer senseless falling in love with externals, the love never earned by qualities of goodness, of character, of intelligence, of wit, of charm, of life-force. In short, how I would like to be loved in a way never earned so that I would never have to keep earning it or work for it

Borges's ethnocentric limitation does not detract from his many other admirable qualities, but it is best not to sidestep it when giving a comprehensive appraisal of his work. Certainly, it is a limitation that offers further proof of his humanity because, as has been said over and over again, there is no such thing as absolute perfection in this world, not even in the world of a creative artist like Borges, who comes as close as anyone to achieving it.

No es el mundo de la burguesía, sino algo más ancho, que cubre transversalmente las clases sociales, lo que Madame Bovary convierte en materia central de la novela: el reino de la mediocridad, el universo gris del hombre sin cualidades. Sólo por esto merecería la novela de Flaubert ser considerada fundadora de la novela moderna, casi toda ella erigida en torno a la esmirriada silueta del antihéroe.

When it comes to married life, character takes precedence over looks...

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both. —T. S. ELIOT

I'm a critic. I write essays about works of art. It's like being a eunuch in the seraglio, but unrequited love is the sweetest, and I have the proper distance. I can compress the qualities of beauty I've been trained to see, store them up, and bring them out at will, rapid-fire, in the combinations I want.

After all, the qualities required to be good with horses are the same qualities required to be good at life in general, and vice versa. Chances are

Global knives, a very good Japanese product which has — in addition to its many other fine qualities — the added attraction of looking really cool. Global makes a lot of knives in different sizes, so what do you need? One chefs knife. This should cut just about anything you might work with

People can only be themselves,' she said. 'If they possessed the qualities you desire in them, they would be different people.' 'That is what I should like them to be.

an explicit focus on the distinctive qualities of interpersonal social exchanges in school communities, and how these cumulate in an organizational property that we term relational trust.

Her virtues were too numerous to describe, and not sufficiently interesting to deserve description.

True love, true friendship, true benevolence, true tenderness, were beautiful to her,—qualities on which she could descant almost with eloquence; and therefore she was always shamming love and friendship and benevolence and tenderness.

The doctor was accustomed to say that his goose was as good as any other man's goose, as far as he could see as yet; but that he should like some very strong evidence before he allowed himself to express an opinion that the young bird partook, in any degree, of the qualities of a swan. From which it may be gathered that Dr. Finn was a man of common-sense.

I do not see emotions and feelings as the intangible and vaporous qualities that many presume them to be. Their subject matter is concrete, and they can be related to specific systems in body and brain, no less so than vision or speech.

We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them.

The knowledge that [he] had passed a loveless, institutionalized childhood and had escaped from his origins by prodigies of pure intellect, at the cost of all other human qualities, helped one to understand him—but not to like him.

It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, ---a factor in a problem. - Sherlock Holmes

Crime is a commonplace, existence is a commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

It is of the first importance, not to allow your judgement to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

Pero el amor es una cosa emocional y todo lo que es emocional se opone a ese frío razonamiento que me parece la cualidad más importante del hombre y que antepongo a lo demás

In becoming the universe God abdicated. He destroyed himself as God. He turned what he had been, his true self, into nullity and thereby forfeited the Godlike qualities which pertained to him. The universe which he has become is also his grave. He has no control in it or over it. God, as God, is dead.