Quality Quotes - Page 56

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life.

That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)

The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality.

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

Welfare mothers make better lovers.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.

This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves.

When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.

Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality.

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.

Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith