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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.


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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.
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MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
ANNE FRANK Love does not measure qualities, nor sets any standards. Love happens.
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WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love...
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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even...
OSCAR WILDE People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.
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MEREDITH MONK Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow comple...
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JACK CANFIELD In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connect...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentim...
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
ALEXANDER POPE How do we replace someone like Martin? Well, Martin was unique, as was Neil, so it's a question of m...
MARTIN CORRY When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
SAM RAIMI Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.
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VINCE LOMBARDI I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.
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ISAAC D'ISRAELI Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's...
PAULA NELSON To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. ...
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OSCAR AULIQ-ICE We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of bei...
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BOBBY SHORT How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unle...
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FREDERICK BUECHNER We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, ch...
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WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our...
SYDNEY SMITH We can create a Heaven on Earth by being empathetic towards the suffering of others as well as by un...
LATIKA TEOTIA In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
ARISTOTLE Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a w...
BO BENNETT It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have writ...
ADAM CLARKE This is too much reality for a Friday.
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HOWIE MANDEL Reason and calm judgment: the qualities especially belonging to a leader.
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JIM JARMUSCH We help companies with managing their features, defects, issues, tasks and tests as they flow throug...
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MIKE ALDEN We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
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JOHN GROGAN That's the reason why we brought him (here), because we felt that he can bring those types of specia...
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C.S. LEWIS Flowers magnetize us with their beauty and reflect back to us our own essence. Their qualities magni...
KATIE HESS The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults
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OSCAR WILDE When the number of people in a group go above the critical mass, their original qualities and behavi...
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HEINRICH MANN More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and exhaust your time and...
HORACE MANN Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
HORACE MANN To pity, distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
HORACE MANN The Forgotten Arm. I don't know if we'd do an acoustic thing or bring the band back or what we'd do ...
AIMEE MANN We recorded the band pretty much live.
AIMEE MANN I'm not into music as a consumer. A songwriter should share their outlook with a measure of honesty,...
AIMEE MANN Something isn't right ? I don't know how I know,
AIMEE MANN I really wanted the record to have a ... feel of an era,
AIMEE MANN I don't think it's really a term you would come across in boxing. I have a friend who is a boxer who...
AIMEE MANN You pay to get radio play, pretty much, ... and you get what you pay for. It's not really a level pl...
AIMEE MANN The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from ...
AIMEE MANN Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy...
AIMEE MANN I feel really special, I do. No matter how temporary it may be. You're only as cool as your last coo...
AIMEE MANN It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
BARRY MANN You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
BARRY MANN