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Quotes About Quality

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~ James Howard Kunstler
The purpose of continuous repentance in the life of a quality man is not a return to the crisis of salvation but part of what the Bible calls sanctification. Repentance is the choice to embrace the Holy Spirit's daily work of convicting us about ongoing sin. "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
~ James MacDonald
All change begins with a change of mind the Bible calls repentance. Repentance is detecting and destroying the rationalizations that led to me checking the sinful choice box in the first place. Repentance is what every biblical prophet was calling for because that is where a man begins to move from depravity to quality.
~ James MacDonald
The purpose of continuous repentance in the life of a quality man is not a return to the crisis of salvation but part of what the Bible calls sanctification
~ James MacDonald
A quality man examines his heart, exposing the fears that generate the lies that lead to sin.
~ James MacDonald
We know we are called to act like quality men with urgency that is governed by clarity in the strength of the Lord. What remains is this matter of love.
~ James MacDonald
We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.
~ James MacDonald
Industry in art is a necessity—not a virtue—and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
~ James McNeill Whistler
Each moment is not the beginning of a period of time. It is the beginning of an event that gives the time within it its specific quality. For an infinite player there is no such thing as an hour of time. There can be an hour of love, or a day of grieving, or a season of learning, or a period of labor.
~ James P. Carse
If the book's bad enough, they'll publish it, and if it's bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it'll sell.
~ James Purdy
He's America in action — opposed to quality.
~ James Purdy
I soffitti rimandavano un eco spettrale, che conferiva a quella disperata ilarità la qualità di un ricordo sin dal momento in cui l'ascoltavo, ricordi di cose che non avevo mai conosciuto.
~ Donna Tartt
With mahogany in particular, it's so tightly grained
~ Donna Tartt
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days.
~ Donna Tartt
This piece, not of the first quality, doesn't fit with anything else I own, and yet isn't it always the inappropriate thing, the thing that doesn't quite work, that's oddly the dearest?
~ Donna Tartt
The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.
~ Donna Tartt
To find the best authors," he boasted, "is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
~ Dorothy Allison
I don't like to see things done badly on either. At the moment, I am tired of journeys. It is time I arrived somewhere.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Men live, not while they breathe, but while they live well.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
For him, it was now of no importance, as his place in the world was of no consequence. He was home, after long and harsh buffeting. And it was she, who knew his quality as Grey had done, who had to live with the knowledge that there was no channel by which it could continue; that for the purposes of the present world the flourish, so brief, was now over with.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Whether people like it or not, the fact remains that unless you continually increase sales you must either lose money or cut down quality.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
A good detective not only has to be intelligent, persevering and prepared to do enless boring routine work, he also needs one other quality: Intuition. I see it rather as the ability to make connections which are there but are not immediately apparent. Subterranean connections.
~ Dorothy Simpson
The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
~ Douglas Adams