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Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong. »Ronald Reagan
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Quality has to be caused, not controlled. »Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. »Peter Drucker
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Quality is never an accident. »Willa A. Foster
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. »William A. Foster
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. »John Ruskin
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Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric. »Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice. »Albert Einstein
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. »Abraham Lincoln
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. »La Rochefoucauld
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Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est. »Seneca
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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. »Ernest J. Gaines
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Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. »Thomas Jefferson
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. »Thomas Jefferson
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Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith. »Thomas Jefferson
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Questions are the creative acts of intelligence. »Frank Kingdon
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. »Aristophanes
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction". »Tryon Edwards
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction. »Tryon Edwards
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Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. »Robert Louis Stephenson
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Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there. »David Zucker
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it. »Vernon Howard
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Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. »Robert Orben
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Quite frankly Ted, the very mention of the word 'Republican' seems to have negative connotations for the Americans in our studio. »Frank Luntz
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. »Dan Quayle
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Quiting smoking is like quiting a beautiful bitch of a lover, she is beautiful but you have 1001 reasons to quit her, quiting benzos is like going out of prison digging the rock with a spoon. »Me
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Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times. »Mark Twain
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Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.
(No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.) »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. »Henry W. Fowler
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Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. »Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
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Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. »Ambrose Bierce
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Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external. »Louise Guiney
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Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence. »Mehmet Murat ildan
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Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. »Richard Kemph
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Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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