quality

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Don't underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It's worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Learn to invest in the best quality you can afford and wear pieces in different ways.

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

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don't think it's all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it's about spending that quality time with that special person.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.

A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet.