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Desert Quotes

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert – and then make it brief.
Gene Fowler

Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.
James Lovelock

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
Walter Elliot

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
Mary Austin

A desert is a place without expectation.
Nadine Gordimer

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
Joyce Carol Oates

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
Pierre Loti

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
Ellsworth Huntington

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
Edward T. Hall

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
Toni Collette

I think the American West really attracts me because it’s romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
Ang Lee

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
Nigella Lawson

I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.
Erika Slezak

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
Mary Austin

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
Jessamyn West

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.
Ling Po

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C.S. Lewis

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young

With all the blood newly dried in the desert, can we not fertilize the land with something else?
Indigo Girls

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Baseball Quotes

I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball.
Pete Rose

Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.
Wes Westrum

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball.  I’ll tell you what I do.  I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby

Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve.
Jaja Q

I’m convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
Tom Clark

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed.
Bill Veeck

There are three things in my life which I really love:  God, my family, and baseball.  The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
Al Gallagher

Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.
Cy Young

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Bob Lemon

Baseball is religion without the mischief.
Thomas Boswell

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.
Bob Veale

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Sandy Koufax

Poets are like baseball pitchers.  Both have their moments.  The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost

I didn’t get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
Wade Boggs

The other sports are just sports.  Baseball is a love.
Bryant Gumbel

Baseball is ninety percent mental, the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

I don’t mind catching your fastball at all. Naturally, I’d want to have a glove on in case you might be having an especially good day.
Gene Green, to pitcher Jim Brosnan

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you.
Roy Campanella

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
Ted Williams

In baseball, you don’t know nothin’.
Yogi Berra

Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.
Wes Westrum

Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
Robert S. Wieder

The only reason I don’t like playing in the World Series is I can’t watch myself play.
Reggie Jackson

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
Red Barber

You teach me baseball and I’ll teach you relativity. No, we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
Albert Einstein

Never bet on baseball.
Pete Rose

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
Casey Stengel

I’m not an athlete. I’m a professional baseball player.
John Kruk

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

He’s a remarkable catcher, that Canzoneri. He’s the only defensive catcher in baseball who can’t catch.
Casey Stengel

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Retirement Quotes

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
Unknown

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.
Ron Chernow

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.
Ginny B. Waite

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can’t think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
Robert MacNeil

Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Ambrose Bierce

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.
Steve Israel

No, I don’t belong to a retirement community.
Sally Kellerman

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it’s a vacation and not a premature retirement.
Mary Crosby

Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
Ben Stiller

I need to retire from retirement.
Sandra Day O’Connor

I’ve enjoyed my retirement.
Darrell Royal

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.
Paul Hogan

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Helen Hayes

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people’s needs upon retirement.
Scott Cook

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.
Sue Kelly

The great thing about show business is that there’s no mandatory retirement age.
Scott Bakula

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.
Mason Cooley

The pain of retirement means loss.
John Murray

A retired husband is often a wife’s fulltime job.
Ella Harris

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Abe Lemons

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache… unless you play golf.
Gene Perret

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.
Scott Cook

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.
Gresham Barrett

Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.
Charles de Saint-Evremond

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
Malcolm Forbes

Musicians don`t retire; they stop when there`s no more music in them.
Louis Armstrong

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
Gene Perret

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Age & Aging Quotes

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
Jerry M. Wright

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.
Gene Fowler

All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Jules Feiffer

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Cato

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
Bill Vaughan

Do not regret growing older.  It is a privilege denied to many.
Author Unknown

The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
R. Palmer: Age

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Lec

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
John W. Turk

In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
E.B. White

I was always taught to respect my elders and I’ve now reached the age when I don’t have anybody to respect.
George Burns

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo

Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
Homer

Everyone is the age of their heart.
Guatemalan Proverb

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

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Unity Quotes

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Saint Augustine

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
Dogen

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
Gottfried Leibniz

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
Philipp Melanchthon

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.
Rowan Williams

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential – do not let your heart waver!
Morihei Ueshiba

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
Theodore Bikel

Individuality or Unity? I saw there’s room for both.
Brian Celio

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
Irving Babbitt

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country’s unity.
Mwai Kibaki

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
John Jay Chapman

Society is unity in diversity.
George H. Mead

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur’an was the message of unity and peace.
Cat Stevens

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
Buddha

Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
Hans Kung

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
Gerry Adams

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Baldwin

We’d like to build a highway for healing and unity.
Bill McCartney

Where there is unity there is always victory.
Publilius Syrus

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
Sallust

Unity without verity is no better than conspiracy.
John Trapp

Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin

Even the weak become strong when they are united.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund Burke

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
Baha’u'llah

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Communism Quotes

Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act.
Joost de Blank

Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.
Boris Yeltsin

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Andre Malraux

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
George Bernard Shaw

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
Lajos Kossuth

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
John F. Kennedy

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it`s just the opposite.
Adam Braidwood

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
Will Rogers

Communism is in conflict with human nature.
Ernest Renan

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
Lech Walesa

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
Ho Chi Minh

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
A. J. P. Taylor

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine

The goal of socialism is communism.
Vladimir Lenin

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.
Pol Pot

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Duty Quotes

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw

I think the first duty of society is justice.
Alexander Hamilton

The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich

Love can do much, but duty more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Simone Weil

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge

Duty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin Disraeli

England expects that every man will do his duty.
Horatio Nelson

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Alfred Adler

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
Ellen Key

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Moliere

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-Powell

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
Mencius

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

God gave me a great body and it’s my duty to take care of my physical temple.
Jean Claude Van Damme

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
David O. McKay

When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough, I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more.
Henry Fielding

It is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Samuel Butler

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.
John Burns

Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Kate DiCamillo

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
Earl Wilson

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
William Gurnall

It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.
John Randolph

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
John James Audubon

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
Brad Henry

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
Pierre Corneille

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
Zachary Taylor

They held it their duty to live but for their country.
William Godwin

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
William R. Alger

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Author: Joseph Addison

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
Randall Terry

To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Book of Common Prayer

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell

Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln

Duty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin Disraeli

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Ambition Quotes

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Pearl Bailey

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant H. McGill

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven Brust

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
Emile M. Cioran

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lao Tzu

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.
Rebecca Miller

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant H. McGill

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
James Cook

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
Wilfred Owen

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

Ambition never comes to an end.
Kenneth Kaunda

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
Joseph Conrad

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have accomplished it.
Claire Bloom

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Philip Massinger

Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
William Feather

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
Ella Maillart

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
Lawrence Welk

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Maybe wanting to retire is my ambition.
Brenda Blethyn

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
Whitfield Diffie

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.
Terry Josephson

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
Theophrastus

We’re not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.
Heather Donahue

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
William Feather

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link

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Quality Quotes

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
Gucci Family Slogan

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quality will be prized as a precious possession.
Unknown

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you’re out of quality, you’re out of business.
Unknown

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Tony Robbins

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Aristotle

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson

Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.
Nicholas Sparks

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Moliere

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Orison Swett Marden

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Emile Zola

I think I’m maintaining the quality, but internally I’m paying for it.
Gary Larson

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
Theodor Adorno

You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William S. Burroughs

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
William Shatner

The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Alexis Carrel

They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed in that. But today it is completely different.
Richard M. Daley

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.
Phil Crosby

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.
Don King

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
Tertullian

Quality survives.
Leonard Maltin

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it’s going to come back to you.
Herb Alpert

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
Andy Goldsworthy

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
Franz Liszt

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
Robertson Davies

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
Yousuf Karsh

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity.
William Ellery Channing

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.
Clare Short

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm

Beauty is less important than quality.
Eugene Ormandy

I’d say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.
Robert Fripp

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley

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

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it.
Pierre Bonnard

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Anger Quotes

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
James Fallows

If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.
Korean Proverb

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot

One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats

Anger is a short madness.
Horace

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Isocrates

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster

Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris

Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It`s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you`re hurt.
Tom Gates

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Jacqueline Schiff

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius

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