Quality Quotes - Page 78

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.

First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.

Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.

The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality transparency.

One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

The quality of my life was the quality of my questions.

Will today be the day you decide once and for all to make your life consistent with the quality of your spirit? Then start by proclaiming, "This is what I am. This is what my life is about. And this is what I'm going to do. Nothing will stop me from achieving my destiny. I will not be denied!

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.