I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week – I didn’t have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity – so I didn’t waste time jogging, ever. – Roger Bannister
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. – Pamela Stephenson
We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children. – Robert Edwards
The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding. – Robert Klein
Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction – an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life. – Rick Larsen
With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear. – Patrick Dempsey
American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers. – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
I know it’s popular to say this because she’s the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she’s a damn good actress too. – Paul Kane
You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you’re known for the wrong things. – Ronald Burkle
My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life. – Richard Artschwager
If there’s something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality. – Penelope Ann Miller
I have young kids. The fiscal burden that will be imposed on them is going to depend primarily on whether we tackle this looming problem in our health care system – with rising costs that don’t seem, by the way, to be necessarily associated with higher quality. That is the key burden that they will face. – Peter Orszag
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. – Robert Louis Stevenson
With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness – charming because it’s aware of itself as phony. It’s as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center. – Rich Cohen
I was able to do something that people can’t do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job. – Robert Scheer
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. – Orison Swett Marden
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 kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don’t have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them. – Seamus Heaney
To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be fine. Charles Dickens or Ingeborg Bachmann, Claude Simon or later writers. The one and only condition is that it has to be good: it has to have quality, substance, atmosphere. – Per Petterson
Changing the conversation about how Americans perceive veterans is really important. These are hardworking, dedicated, innovative people who deserve quality employment when they return home from their military service. – Rob Riggle
For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base. – Robert Scheer
It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things. – Rube Goldberg
Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume – not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality. – Ron Wyden
Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression. – Romola Garai