Quotes About Attributed

#1. Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.

Tina Fey

#2. I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

Greg Graffin

#3. This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

Donald E. Williams Jr.

#4. The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220)

Steven Pinker

#5. Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

Chester W. Nimitz

#6. Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

Penn Jillette

#7. The distinction between "magick" and "communication" exits only in our traditional ways of thinking. The uncanny Egyptians attributed both inventions to a single deity, Thoth, god of speech and other illusions.

Robert Anton Wilson

#8. A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Garson Kanin

#9. This benign property of his prose is not, one hopes, to be attributed to the reason noticed by the eccentric du Garbandier, who said 'the beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the happy conviction that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest'.

Flann O'Brien

#10. At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name." - Attributed to John H. "Doc" Holliday

Mary Doria Russell

#11. One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words.' Opportunities to do so are all around us. Do not miss them by waiting too long on the road to Damascus.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#12. When a pope's election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#13. And now, As I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if I am asked how we should account for the unusual prosperity and growing strength of this nation, I would reply that they must be attributed to the superiority of their woman.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#14. Before my daughter was lost to me, I might have attributed his apparent stillness and control to a lack of feeling, but now I know, to my cost, that appearing unfeeling is the price we sometimes pay for being able to speak at all.

Louise Doughty

#15. Ideas ... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.
(Attributed to Mike Jones)

Steven Levy

#16. The irregularities of the motion of Uranus ... in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it.
[John Couch Adams on how he began to discover Neptune.]

John Couch Adams

#17. The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.

Steven Morrissey

#19. The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.

Joseph McCabe

#20. Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'.

Idries Shah

#21. There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either the scientific attitude, or in science, though this lack has been frequently attributed to them.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#22. After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Marie Curie

#23. Youse guys think this deleted outfit is a blankety-blank nursery. Well, it ain't! See? - Remark attributed to a Hellenic corporal before the walls of Troy, 1194 B.C.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .

John Maynard Keynes

#25. First things first: Marie Antoinette never said, 'Let them eat cake.' Those words were attributed to an earlier French Queen, Marie-Therese, the wife of the Sun King Louis XIV. By 1767---a year in which Marie Antoinette was still an innocent German-speaking twelve-year-old in Austria....

Kris Waldherr

#26. Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

Denis Waitley

#27. For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.

Thomas Merton

#28. The problem with paths is that once you have chosen one, You cannot choose the others. Attributed to Gothos

Ian C. Esslemont

#29. Yet, sales continue to be a problem for many organizations because they are not addressing the core issue for lack of results, which can be attributed to poor emotion management. Chapter

Colleen Stanley

#30. a mantra she attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: women in politics, she said, "need to develop skin as tough as a rhinoceros hide.

Mark Leibovich

#31. Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.

Dennis Lindley

#32. If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!

Rudolph Valentino

#33. Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

Thomas Aquinas

#34. The great variety of moral qualities attributed to God by Scripture revolves particularly around two - holiness and love. These may be said in summary form to constitute the moral character of God

Thomas C. Oden

#35. The credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.

John F. Kennedy

#36. What if I can't be their hero? What if I'm destined to be the villain?~attributed to Harry Potter

Jacquel Chrissy May

#37. Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."

Yogi Berra

#38. Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - frequently attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cinnamon Miles

#39. So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice

Plato

#40. A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius

Elisabeth Elliot

#41. Although the gospels of the New Testament
like those discovered at Nag Hammadi
are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.

Elaine Pagels

#42. Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome

Victor Hugo

#43. I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.

Mike Ditka

#44. Magical properties were attributed to it. Its brew was sipped on the steps of sacrificial temples; its ecstasies were fierce and terrible. Is this what he fears? Corruption by pleasure, the subtle transubstantiation of the flesh into a vessel for debauch?

Joanne Harris

#45. Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.

Neale Donald Walsch

#46. Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

Gordon R. Dickson

#47. The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority ... If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#48. The decay of the family in quite recent times is undoubtedly to be attributed in the main to the industrial revolution, but it had already begun before that event, and its beginnings were inspired by individualistic theory. Young

Bertrand Russell

#49. It is probably safe to say that in strongly hierarchical societies the only people to whom something approaching nationalist sentiments can be attributed in pre-modern times is the ruling elite, and then only at times.

Patricia Crone

#50. My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda and me that afternoon, which I attributed to the heat. I was oblivious to the mounting hostilities in our basement apartment.

Deval Patrick

#51. As the familiar quote usually attributed to Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis goes, We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Jaron Lanier

#52. We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf"
Opening to "My Father's Son," attributed to George Orwell

George Orwell

#53. If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from they slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Attributed to the Gulistan of Moslih Eddin Saadi

Hazel Felleman

#54. I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.

Ilona Andrews

#55. I see war as that insane enterprise wherein men dig up the riches of the earth and hurl them at one another. - ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH DANIEL HARRINGTON

Larry Niven

#56. It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry)

Francis Chan

#57. The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.

Tawakkol Karman

#58. I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.

John C. Calhoun

#59. The second reason I decided to get ECT is that I was depressed. Profoundly depressed. Part of this could be attributed to my mood disorder, which was, no doubt, probably the source of the emotional intensity. That's what can take simple sadness and turn it into sadness squared.

Carrie Fisher

#60. I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

Randy Harrison

#61. To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.

Giacomo Casanova

#62. Nahuseresh had attributed her reluctance to an entirely understandable female timidity. He didn't seem to understand that the people of Eddis had very little to do all winter beyond develop superior artisan skills and train for war.

Megan Whalen Turner

#63. At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

Roman Jakobson

#64. No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.

Gloria Steinem

#65. 24 THE MEASURE OF LOVE The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine The

Cassandra Clare

#66. A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Mary Schmich

#67. Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it
in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#68. Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#69. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

Maya Angelou

#70. motives of people, she was inclined to credit any extraordinary happening attributed to the whimsical perambulations of the buried. The desperate squeakings about the old house on

F Scott Fitzgerald

#71. God may not have a brain made of neurones, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know.

Anonymous

#72. I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

Janet Evanovich

#73. Homer invented these fictions and attributed human powers to the gods; I wish he had attributed divine powers to us

Augustine Of Hippo

#74. I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.

Charles Darwin

#75. Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.

Will Cuppy

#76. Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.

Mike Ditka

#77. The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

Peter Heather

#78. Attributed the decay of Hindu society in Trinidad to the rise of the timorous, weak, non-beating class of husband.

V.S. Naipaul

#79. Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

Marjane Satrapi

#80. Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

Paul Crouch

#81. President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.

Ben Shapiro

#82. I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

Bill Gates

#83. Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.

Vincent Piazza

#84. There is nothing absurd in the doctrine, that though man is justified by faith, he is himself not only not righteous, but the righteousness attributed to his works is beyond their own deserts.

John Calvin

#85. She felt puzzled and ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.

Margaret Mitchell

#86. I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

Ozzy Osbourne

#87. We have come a long way, we have a long way to go. In between we are somewhere.
(Attributed to Reinhold Messner?)

Kim Stanley Robinson

#88. Many great religions, Pagan and Christian, have insisted on wine. Only one, I think, has insisted on Soap. You will find it in the New Testament attributed to the Pharisees.

G.K. Chesterton

#89. Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

Camille Paglia

#90. What the Greek called "Panic" fears were attributed in Italy to Fauns.[ 37] "Trees,

T.R. Glover

#91. The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.

Morgan Freeman

#92. At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of "getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers.

Evelyn Waugh

#93. One death has already been attributed to the Glow Cloud.

But listen, it's probably nothing. If we had to shut down the town for every mysterious event that at least one death could be attributed to, we'd never have time to do anything, right?

Joseph Fink

#94. They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not
meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#95. Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#96. [Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#97. There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

Agnes Smedley

#98. It has been demonstrated that freemason - in an operative context - is a contraction of 'freestone mason' ... The earliest printed use so far traced comes in The Pilgrimage of Perfection - usually attributed to William Bonde - printed in 1536 by Wynkyn de Worde.

John Hamill

#99. Low interest rates are usually attributed to low inflation, weak economic growth and super easy monetary policy. But there's another deep-seated factor that doesn't get much attention: demographics.

Greg Ip

#100. Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left undone anything we should have done.It could only be attributed to sheer bad luck.

Jim Corbett