Attributes famous quotes
06-24-2025
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Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.
-- Abdul Sattar Edhi -
What makes Facebook so great is the fact that you can make up absolutely random quotes and then attribute them to famous people.
-- Albert Einstein -
[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
-- Aristophanes -
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.
-- Brigham Young -
I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute.
-- Chad Kroeger -
I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
-- Claude Monet -
Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.
-- David Bosch -
The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.
-- Francis Beaumont -
I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other
-- Fred Hollows -
Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
-- Graydon Carter -
Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah is like the ascending of the creation, or His Descending (Nuzool) is like the descending of the creation or other than that, then he is a deviated innovator.
-- Ibn Taymiyyah -
Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.
-- J. I. Packer -
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.
-- Katharine Graham -
If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.
-- Lawrence Welk -
If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that's success. You define that as success, then that's success. Success is not a general thing. It's a personal thing. It's a personal attribute.
-- Lupe Fiasco -
Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
-- Mariella Frostrup -
The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.
-- Mark Ronson -
An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
-- Markus Zusak -
Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
Patience is one of the most valuable attributes in investing.
-- Martin Zweig -
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
-- Matthew Henry -
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to do as mortals would have Him do. Instead of such childishness, we are urged to know God and to learn of His attributes.
-- Neal A. Maxwell -
It's all about dreams. If I had to attribute my success in life to any one thing it is this. I believed in my dreams, even when no one else did.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
-- P. Chidambaram -
It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.
-- Peter Dicken -
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
-- Peter Drucker -
The most dominant cultural attributes maintained are the ones that are reinforced by your environment.
-- Peter Joseph -
If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not have given them so many invitations to study and contemplate Nature.
-- Robert Boyle -
Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.
-- Robert Kennedy -
I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.
-- Robert Mapplethorpe -
Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.
-- Scott Hamilton -
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 -
There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.
-- Swami Paramananda -
Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.
-- Ted Malloch -
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.
-- Teresa Wright -
He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
-- Thomas Gore -
Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.
-- Thomas Otway -
Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.
-- Victor Vasarely -
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
-- Whoopi Goldberg -
The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
-- William Ames -
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 -
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 -
Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.
-- William Westney -
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
-- Xenocrates -
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.
-- Christina Baldwin -
Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine with those.
-- Luke Temple -
It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.
-- Matt Tong -
Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another.
-- Michael Adam Hamilton -
While love is one of God's attributes, it's not his only attribute. God is also holy and just.
-- Robert Jeffress -
Live up to other people's best attributes, not down to their worst.
-- Jef Mallett -
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
-- William Everson
