Famous quotes containing the word quality:
“I have every characteristic of a night persona distaste for bosses, a hatred of the expected, an obsession with gaining an ultimately nonexistent freedomevery quality except one. I cant stay awake after a while. I fall asleep.”
—John Bowers (b. 1928)
“A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914)
“The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
Tis mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes
The thronèd monarch better than his crown.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)