Quality Quotes - Page 96

At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have.

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

Love is a quality, not a quantity.

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

The image itself is kind of the least important factor to me, though I'm still interested in putting forth an interesting image. I see the image as the screen laid over top of what really interests me, which is that depth of surface and that filmic quality that it has when you pass the piece. The idea that my pieces look like paintings, but are most definitely not, is really interesting to me.

Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.

The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.

Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business.

I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.

The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.