#qualities

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#consequence #crimes #her #means #most

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence. ↗

— David Seabury

#cannot #comes #control #deny #disappears

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#attributed #female #found #indians #many

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#construct #enduring #ephemeral #everything #flashes

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. ↗

— Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

#built #exact #exact science #feeling #greatness

Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love. ↗

— Doreen Virtue

#creativity #divine #god #love #mirror

Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual. ↗

— David Amerland

#social-media-addiction #social-media-qualities #social-network-tropes #business

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#attention #cannot #command #least #nuisance

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#even #faults #hated #life #me

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#bequeathed #blood #bones #bronze #capabilities