Qualities Quotes

You're not a bad person. You're a very good person who bad things have happened to. You understand? Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody — you can be a good guy and do it.

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J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

Human, People

... he's nervous and timid and well meaning, and I don't know of any more damning qualities a man can have.

— What are you looking for? Who's your perfect guy?
— Well, first of all, he's too humble to know he's perfect.
— That's me.
— He's intelligent, supportive, funny...
— Intelligent, supportive, funny. Me, me, me.
— He's romantic and courageous.
— Me also.
— He's got a good body but he doesn't have to look in the mirror every two minutes.
— I have a great body, and sometimes I go months without looking.
— He's kind, sensitive and gentle. He's not afraid to cry in front of me.
— This is a man we're talking about, right?
— He likes animals, children, and he'll change poopy diapers.
— Does he have to use the word «poopy»?
— Oh, and he plays an instrument, and he loves his mother.
— I am really close on this one. Really, really close.

Not to see the good in others, not to admit their talent, is to lack generosity.

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Yi dai zong shi

Master Gong Yutian

One thing begets the next. A man has a weakness, he's flawed. That flaw leads him to guilt. The guilt leads him to shame. The shame he compensates with pride and vanity. And when pride fails, despair takes over and they all lead to his destruction. What will become his fate. Something's got to stop the flow.

— People equate silence with brilliance.
— And stillness with depth.

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Black Cadillac

Scott (college student)

C.J. LongHammer

Mistakes

— What is it then that attracts you to the Bedouin out there?
— It is something that you and your world would never understand. It's their freedom. It's their dignity. It's their poetry of life.

— Tell me, Breck, before you die, how do we differ from the dogs and cats you and your kind used to love? Why did you turn us from pets into slaves?
— Because your kind were once our ancestors.

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