Quality Quotes
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. - William James
If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with 'compelling' reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion like quality. - William O. Douglas
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. - Samuel Beckett
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing, he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music. - Victoria de los Angeles
In the United States, politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humours, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals. - Henry Louis Mencken
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality, that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence. - Orison Swett Marden
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.-Origen
We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.-Orville Redenbacher
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.-Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.-Robert Mondavi
The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.-Ali MacGraw
It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.-Rube Goldberg
Time control directly influences the quality of play.-Boris Spassky
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.-Cesar Romero
I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.-Boris Spassky
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.-Chris Evert
There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently.-Steve Albini
I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.-Paul Kane
Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.-Alan Dundes
If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.-Anita Roddick
Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.-William Bligh
Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.-Jon Huntsman, Jr.
If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.-Lydia Lunch
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.-Henry Hazlitt
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.-Smokey Robinson
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.-Victoria de los Angeles
I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.-Amy Adams
I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.-Joe Baca
I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.-John Philip Sousa
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.-Timothy Geithner
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.-Irving Babbitt
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.-Irving Babbitt
The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.-Alexander Haig
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.-Pierre Corneille
That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said "But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously," and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.-Joss Whedon
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.-Walter Pater
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.-Walter Pater
As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.-Priscilla Presley
But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.-Minoru Yamasaki
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.-Isabel Allende
There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.-Manfred von Richthofen
The quality of life is more important than life itself.-Alexis Carrel
In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.-Ann Macbeth
I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.-Ann Macbeth
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.Cyril Connolly
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.-Ralph Fiennes
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.-Major Owens
Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.-Nigella Lawson
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.-James F. Cooper
You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.-Timothy Dalton
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.-Rowan Atkinson
We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.-Rowan Atkinson
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.-Arne Jacobsen
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.-Arne Jacobsen
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.-Wole Soyinka
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.-Martin Buber
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.-Dwight Yoakam
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.-Bell Hooks
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.-Charles Lindbergh
It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.-Andy Goldsworthy
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.-Andy Goldsworthy
They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed in that. But today it is completely different.-Richard M. Daley
Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.-Paul Wellstone
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.-Don Marquis
You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.-Patrick Stewart
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.-Emanuel Swedenborg
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.-Lord Chesterfield
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.-Lord Chesterfield
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.-Henri Frederic Amiel
The difference between style and fashion is quality.-Giorgio Armani
There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.-Tom Wolfe
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.-Moliere
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.-Doug Larson
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.-Rem Koolhaas
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.-Joseph Conrad
I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.-Helen Reddy
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.-Alvin Ailey
When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.-Puff Daddy
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.-Tertullian
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.-John McEnroe
I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.-Rob Zombie
When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.-Jim Henson
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.-Emile Zola
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.-Ray Kroc
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.-Denis Diderot
And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.-Robert Rauschenberg