Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities – good and bad.
Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they’re complex.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
I don’t see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I’ve read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.
The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected – not being part of the old boy’s network – gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
I am still a big fan of Jogi Low, and not just in terms of the sporting side of things. This applies to his character, his leadership qualities and his humanity.
When someone has found not just another person they can live with but a person they can’t live without, they should have an equal right to the true qualities of a bond that runs deeper than any law.
Tarzan is such a great character in that he’s very innocent and wide-eyed about the world, yet he’s so powerful and capable. It’s fun to play those qualities simultaneously in the same person.
Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better.
I wanted to prove myself on the pitch, but I didn’t have many chances, so it put a lot more pressure on every single game that I played. I found myself in situations where I was so keen to show my qualities, but many times it worked against me and I was punished for being too eager.
An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.
Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.
Never stop believing in yourself; play with your qualities. You always have to keep making steps. Progress is everything. The big players, every season, they become a new player: they learn, and they learn. That’s the key.
The fear of this delicate and fierce feminine has more to do with our fear of being vulnerable again, getting hurt again, than it does by our actual distaste for the beauty of the feminine and Her qualities.
I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I’m going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to.
I’ve always thought it’s the qualities of a person that matter. Not their breed, their shape, their color, their sexual preference, age… It’s the qualities of their character.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
I feel more comfortable with fast players because I try to control the depth. For my qualities, it’s what I prefer.
I recall very early Mel Gibson films where he’s kind of cheeky. I wanted to embody those qualities, definitely.
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
Whoever comes to Madrid does so because he has the qualities to do things well.
Papa had some amazing qualities. He was a very spiritual person. He was very passionate about his work. He was a completely self-made man. At the same time, his generosity and kindness were two aspects of him that really defined his personality.
Of course I knew when I was young that I had some qualities, physically.
‘Jelly,’ more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same qualities in their own lives.
Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.
Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what art does in general, is get rid of all the noise. It hones in and isolates the qualities of a scene.
We didn’t think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended – that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!
I know people say you have to be big and strong to play in the Premier League, but you cannot just judge a player by their size. You have to look at their other qualities, too.
I want to be perceived – or maybe I perceive myself – as this really easygoing, honest person that’s just giving. Realistically, I have those qualities, but I’m very aggressive. I can be very harsh. It comes off almost mean, you know?
I have to be honest: in my career, I’ve really had to fight to come in the middle again. A lot of managers told me, ‘You are way more comfortable as a winger than as a midfielder,’ but I always kept my trust and confidence in what I knew about my qualities.
Anytime I’ve travelled to the Middle East, I’ve always experience the very best in hospitality. They are some of the most kind and wonderful people I’ve had the chance to meet, and I feel that Saudi Arabia shares those same qualities.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities – because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
If you’re designing a hammer, it’s clear that it should hit a nail. But when designing a home, it’s much more nuanced. You have to make sure there are qualities that nurture and enrich human life.
When I looked at the addictive qualities of video games and how they captivate people’s attention, I decided to try the same technology for enhancing well-being.
When I went through my divorce, I decided that I was going to pray this time for someone. Then, God sent me someone. I prayed for the specific qualities I wanted in a man, and I wasn’t going to settle for anything less.
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing ‘Burial Rites,’ I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
I still miss qualities of Khmer life that are hard to quantify: the slow, sensual pace, the hovering presence of the past, the vast skies filled with terrifying and beautiful butts. And, of course, the food.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics – not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president.
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.
I’m not Zidane and not Rui Costa, but I have qualities – I can create assists – but I have to step up a level to become like those two.
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
Most of the people don’t know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.
I feel like it’s weird to list all my crap qualities.
I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He’s not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he’s also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
