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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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


"What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation."


"The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him."


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


"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."


"I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really."


"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."


"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."


"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."


"When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality."


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


"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."


"Twice a week I'll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road."


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


"People do eventually see something that's quality."


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


"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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