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Quality Quotes


"I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular."


"I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils."


"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."


"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."


"All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else."


"Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher."


"What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person."


"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."


"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."


"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."


"The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back."


"I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us."


"You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."


"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others."


"A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense."


"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."


"Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards."


"There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served."


"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."


"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."


"Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer."


"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good."


"I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on."


"Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks."


"We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood."


"The difference between style and fashion is quality."


"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."


"I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy."
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