#qualities

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#accepting #although #around #ball #chasing

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#code #could #distribution #etc #fascism

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#devotion #excellent #other #politics #qualities

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#face #facts #fashion #fearless #go

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

#arrive #change #defects #i #i am

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. ↗

— Plutarch

#carefully #endeavor #excel #excellent #faulty

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.' ↗

— Robert Teeter

#any #automatically #barbara #bush #clinton

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

He was nice. And he was hot. And he didn't seem to mind that I was borderline mental. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#love