Quotes with quality

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  • Rupert Murdoch Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
    Rupert Murdoch
    Australian-born American media mogul (born 1931) (1931 - )
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  • Emma Thompson My worst quality is impatience.
    Emma Thompson
    British actress and screenwriter (born 1959) (1959 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bernard Mandeville No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Cyril Connolly No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Renata Adler 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.
    Renata Adler
    American author, journalist, and film (1937 - )
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  • Michel Leiris Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.
    Michel Leiris
    French ethnologist, poet and writer (1901 - 1990)
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  • Bill Engvall Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
    The Intelligent Investor Ch. 20, Margin of Safety: The Central Concept, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • John Gay Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Arne Jacobsen 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.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Oscar Wilde On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Hazlitt One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Carson McCullers Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Albert J. Nock Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George Eliot Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jonathan Swift Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bev Perdue President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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