Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
~By John Updike ~
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
~By Charles Eames ~
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.
~By Gil Kane ~
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
~By William Faulkner ~
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
~By Mordecai Wyatt Johnson ~
The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?
~By Penelope Keith ~
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.
~By Robert Scheer ~
The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.
~By Tim Bishop ~
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
~By Alvin Ailey ~
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.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
~By James F. Cooper ~
But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
~By Roy Barnes ~
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
~By Dale Turner ~
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
~By John Negroponte ~
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
~By Charles Vest ~
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
~By Andre Maurois ~
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
~By Agnes Macphail ~
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.
~By Frank Knox ~
And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
~By Ed Miliband ~
What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.
~By Julian Assange ~
Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.
~By Cavett Robert ~
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
~By Ray Kroc ~
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
~By Mary Douglas ~
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
~By Kenneth H. Cooper ~
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
~By Theodore White ~
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
~By Renata Adler ~
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
~By Marc Morial ~
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
~By Tertullian ~
I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work.
~By Kevin Conroy ~
In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.
~By Theo de Raadt ~
As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
~By James Bovard ~
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
~By James F. Cooper ~
There is a lot of good quality music being made and from this tour and the touring we've been doing over the 10 years there has definitely been a big pickup in people showing up, especially in girls 18-24.
~By John Campbell ~
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
~By Tom Robbins ~
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.
~By David Obey ~
I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.
~By Janet Suzman ~
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
~By Aristotle ~
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
~By William Glasser ~
It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.
~By Ashley Judd ~
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
~By Cesar Romero ~
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
~By Denis Diderot ~
There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
~By Beck ~
As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.
~By Merrie Spaeth ~
The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.
~By Norman McLaren ~
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~By John Steinbeck ~
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
~By Nancy L. Johnson ~
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
~By Maureen Reagan ~
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
~By Bernadette Devlin ~
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
~By Charles Vest ~
I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
~By Major Owens ~
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
~By James M. Barrie ~
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
~By Aristotle ~
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
~By Sun Tzu ~
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
~By Major Owens ~
What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.
~By Giovanni Ribisi ~
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
~By Margaret Mead ~
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
~By Joseph Beuys ~
As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.
~By Sue Kelly ~
And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.
~By Hugh Grant ~
In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.
~By Douglas Wilson ~
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
~By Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ~
I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
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.
~By Dave Heineman ~
Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.
~By John Hutton ~
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
~By Alex Campbell ~
It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
~By Bob Taft ~
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