Quotes About Qualities

The people we hate haunt us; they inhabit our minds in a negative way as we brood in a deviant form of meditation on their bad qualities. The enemy thus becomes our twin, a shadow self whom we come to resemble.

Sua mãe e eu sempre ficávamos muito satisfeitos, em segredo, com o fato de você ser tão determinada e intensa em relação a suas causas. Quando você foi embora, entendemos que essas eram as qualidades que definem os homens como espertos e ambiciosos e as mulheres como um problema.

The commodity is, first of all, an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.

It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers.

...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?