#quality

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira. ↗

— William Bligh

#bought #contract #fifteen #good #inferior

Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#get #i #i think #passionate #probably

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#had #i #like #literary #more

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#cause #children #common #common cause #country

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#find #fortune #inequality #man #perhaps

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites. ↗

— James Buchan

#away #commodity #customer #deny #give

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#become #being #bigger #called #equality

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ↗

— Joseph Chamberlain

#courage #esteemed #first #guarantees #human

The first quality that is needed is audacity. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#first #needed #quality

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality. ↗