The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur.
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.
My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.
As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.
We take the privacy of our consumers' information as one of the most trusted things that people look to Paypal for, because when it comes to financial services, the single most important brand attribute you can have is trust.
If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.
Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.
I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.
My mind-set is my major attribute.
The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
I'm not nearly as big as I was, but I attribute that to eating healthy. I'm just not a skinny girl, and I just want to give more opportunities to people like me.
Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
Very, very few adults possess so much charm that they can long be supported by another adult based on that attribute alone.
