All Quotes

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
‐‐ Clarence Darrow

The push for 'Meatless Mondays' in our military is misguided at best and goes against dietary guidelines. Our men and women in uniform should have the option to consume the protein they need, including meat, on a daily basis.
‐‐ Joni Ernst

The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.
‐‐ Edward Lampert

'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.
‐‐ Bonnie Langford

The Putin regime's income comes from oil and gas exports. If we could crash the price of these commodities, we could bankrupt the regime.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.
‐‐ Liam Neeson

The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with these wonderful people has been incredibly valuable.
‐‐ Corneille Ewango

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
‐‐ Pierre Loti

The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
‐‐ I. M. Pei

The Pyrenees are no more.
‐‐ Louis XIV

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
‐‐ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.
‐‐ Joe Biden

The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.
‐‐ Kathy Baker

The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.
‐‐ Brendan Coyle

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
‐‐ Oscar de la Renta

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.
‐‐ Bryan Q. Miller

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
‐‐ David Mamet

The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
‐‐ Ray Kroc

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi

The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
‐‐ OMI

The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?
‐‐ Robert Pozen

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
‐‐ Robert Fripp

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.
‐‐ Jan de Bont

The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic.
‐‐ Cheryl Ladd

The quality of health care in Canada is excellent.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
‐‐ Frances Perkins

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.
‐‐ Flea

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.
‐‐ Rebecca Miller

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.
‐‐ Scott Pelley

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

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

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

The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a joke, but a sick joke, a horror movie. But I'd rather stay involved and do what I can to make this a better place than move to the south of France and enjoy the good life.
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.
‐‐ Cecil Taylor

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
‐‐ Audre Lorde

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.
‐‐ Anurag Kashyap

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

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
‐‐ Ali MacGraw

The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.
‐‐ Rebekah Brooks

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