In America, Qualification is
In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I’ve adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified. Eugene Mirman
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In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I’ve adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified. Eugene Mirman
By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools’ ability to recruit the right people. Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs. Eric Hoffer
You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one … Read more
To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most of the useful and respectable, qualifications. The character in which both the one and the other should be united and harmonised would seem to constitute the most perfect idea of human nature. Edward … Read more
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of … Read more
A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility – alive, with the qualifications of the dead – dead, with the propensities of the living – an anomaly on the face of the earth – being very calm, yet breathless. Edgar Allan Poe
As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It’s less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself. Eddie Marsan
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. Earl Warren
The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically ‘in’. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I’m afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications. Frederick Lenz