Quality Quotes - Page 37

• I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.

  David Levithan

  Able, Steps, Moments

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Strong, Fighting, Wind

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• The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Kindness, Hate

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

  Terry Pratchett

  Intelligent, Would Be, Praying

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.175, Random House

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• I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Heart, Reality, Envy

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.340, Hamilton Books

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• I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show.

  Anna Gavalda

  Thinking, Talking, Bored

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• 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.

  David Benioff

  Passion, Character, Men

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• . . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and---from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone. . .the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization.

  William Faulkner

  Christian, Fall, Light

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• If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind.

  Pema Chodron

  Interesting, Finding Yourself, Mind

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

  George Sand

  Noble, Virtue, Exclusive

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• Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Thinking, Special

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• The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a sailboat: privacy and fresh produce are in short supply, hygiene is basic, and a fair amount of the crew's time is spent just on maintaining and repairing the craft.

  Chris Hadfield

  Hygiene, Space, Long

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• Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Real, People

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• What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

  Tony Robbins

  Communication, World, Determined

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

  Philip Yancey

  Spiritual, Humility, People

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 16, 2014

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• But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Doubt, Noble

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• Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?

  Cassandra Clare

  Loyalty, Clockwork Princess, Stills

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1203, Simon and Schuster

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• My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

  Christopher Meloni

  Daughter, Mother, Wife

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• Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

  Anton Chekhov

  Anna, Good Quality

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• Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference." I frowned. "There's...a law of conservation of history?

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, Law, Events

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• Quantity has a quality all its own.

  Joseph Stalin

  Intelligent, Quantity And Quality, Quantity

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• Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for those who might fall into the former categories or whose company you enjoy for its own sake. And don't worry about socializing with everyone else. Relationships make everyone happier, introverts included, but think quality over quantity.

  Susan Cain

  Fall, Love Is, Thinking

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• Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Elegance, Visible

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• One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.

  Paulo Coelho

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• The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Stories, Littles, Belief

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.100, Macmillan

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