Quality Quotes - Page 92

All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it is virtuous; and when the neglect or nonperformance of it displeases us after a like manner, we say that we lie under an obligation to perform it.

Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.

Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.

I kind of enjoy the limits. If you've got no limits, you can do absolutely anything, it's very difficult, actually. I always enjoyed working with machines like color photocopiers and letter-pressing type settings, things where the limits are very apparent. You push the machine to do something, and it tries to do its best, and it usually has wonderful qualities all of its own. Then you get a sort of dialogue going, and the limitations become qualities.

When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

All communication begins with an intention, and your intention determines the quality of your life.

I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit.

How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.

You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.

As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas.

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. It also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting Victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act Victorian.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.