#trait

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#collect #folded #got #guy #him

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#been #best #church #conservatism #equality

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#consequences #heroic #me #ordinary #ordinary people

I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#any #chinese #i #i am #i do

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#human #human being #i #i think #rarest

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman. ↗

— David Walliams

#gentleman #i #know #like #retired

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. ↗

— Rob Walton

#army #camps #companies #concentration #dupont

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. ↗

— James Whistler

#like #long #long time #look #man

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#every #feeling #painted #portrait #sitter

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#abraham lincoln #admiration #audacious #better #both