“Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.”
Christine Feehan book Dark Destiny
Source: Dark Destiny
Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008), Church of Scotland (May 25, 2009)
“Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.”
Christine Feehan book Dark Destiny
Source: Dark Destiny
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
As quoted in How They Succeeded (1901) by Orison Swett Marden
Context: I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
“You can't trust the quality any more…”
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
On why he seldom took LSD in his later years.
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
First published in the "Roger Ebert's Journal" column (19 May 2010) http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/cannes-7-a-campaign-for-real-movies
“It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.”
Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat
res angusta domi.
Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat
res angusta domi.
III, line 164.
Variant translation: Slow rises Worth, by Poverty deprest.
As translated by Samuel Johnson
Satires, Satire III
“Freedom from lower qualities is an essential qualification required for spiritual progress.”
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 95
Tom Peters book In Search of Excellence
Source: In Search of Excellence (1982), p. 75.