Quality Quotes - Page 31

• Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

  Sydney Smith

  Love, Respect, Shadow

  "Sermons".

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• The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Morning, Evening, Surf

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Strong, Thinking, Important

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• What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Trying, Ephemeral, Building

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• We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  School, Equality, Should Have

  Speech to the United Parents Association, as quoted in "The New York Times", April 6, 1958.

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• I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

  Kristen Stewart

  Brother, Self, Conscious

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• Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

  William Styron

  Depression, Pain, Suffering

  William Clark Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

  James Surowiecki

  Thinking, People, May

  "In Case of Emergency". www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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• I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.

  Taylor Swift

  Optimistic, Sagittarius, Majors

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• Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fragility, Vulnerable, Volatility

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• The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Happiness, Success, Laughter

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wisdom, Citizens, May

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• You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

  John Travolta

  Projects, Ifs

  "Just A Minute With: John Travolta on music, movies, misses". Interview with Jill Serjeant, www.reuters.com. November 28, 2008.

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• You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.

  Josh Turner

  Love Is, Thinking, Weakness

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• When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

  Shania Twain

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Struggle

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

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• The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Technology, Years

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• The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Artist, Different, World

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• To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

  Jimmy Wales

  Who I Am, Goal, Language

  "Wikipedia isn't about human potential, whatever Wales says" by Seth Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2008.

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• One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

  Max Weber

  Responsibility, Passion, Feelings

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.115, Routledge

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• If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.

  Andrew Weil

  Sleep, Hygiene, Experts

  "Why Dreams Are Vital to Emotional Health" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2012.

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• I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care.

  Harvey Weinstein

  New York, Wall, Kids

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2011.

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• I wouldn't participate in 'Stars on Ice' if I were asked. I find it an amateurish tour in a way, the production quality.

  Johnny Weir

  Stars, Ice, Way

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• If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

  Lawrence Welk

  Voice, Attributes, Performers

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

  Cornel West

  Strong, Jobs, America

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• I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Cutting, Thinking

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