Quality Quotes - Page 24

• U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.

  Max Baucus

  Important, Beef, Montana

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• Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Two, Fundamentals, Literature

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.26, Wesleyan University Press

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• The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Time, Aquariums

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.391, CUP Archive

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• 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.

  Beck

  Fall, Blow, Faces

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• We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Space, Figures

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.224, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.

  Annie Besant

  Boys, Interesting, Training

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• 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.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Principles, Social

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• Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Passion, Soul, Curiosity

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.601, Library of America

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• I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.

  Mary J. Blige

  Problem, Quality Of Life, Health Problems

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2010.

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• A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Travel, Gears, Photograph

  Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.260, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Religious, Style, Wake Up

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• Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

  Anne Bronte

  Men, Next, Kind

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.150, Diversion Books

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• Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Opposites, Two, Mind

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• God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Peculiar, Want

  Martin Buber (1997). “Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis”, p.142, Syracuse University Press

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• To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

  James Buchan

  Unique, Men, Names

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• Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Film, Industry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's got to be as good as Godfather's or I won't eat it.

  Herman Cain

  Premium, Particular, Stills

  "A Pizza Party with Herman Cain". Interview with Devin Gordon, Alan Richman, Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 13, 2011.

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• I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

  James Cameron

  Nice, Animal, People

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• We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.

  Alex Campbell

  Would Be, Able, Way

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• For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Judging, Essentials

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.280

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• I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

  Jimmy Carter

  Memorable, Commitment, Rights

  "The US and Israel Stand Alone". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2006.

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• The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

  Willa Cather

  Hands, Intimate, Made

  1927 Death Comes to the Archbishop, bk.1, ch.3.

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• Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, People, Shining

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.345, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

  Noam Chomsky

  Growth, Gone, Maintaining

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• The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Quality Not Quantity, Long, Mind

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 3)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.

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