Famous quotes containing the word qualities:
“The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“In contrast with envy, which usually occurs between two people and is focused upon another person’s qualities or possessions, jealousy occurs when a third person becomes a threat to a dyad. Jealousy involves the loss or the impending loss of a relationship that one wants to hold onto, a relationship that is vital to personal fulfillment and claimed as one’s own.”
—Carol S. Becker (b. 1942)