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  • You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
  • If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. -- Victoria Woodhull
  • There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance. -- Paul Tournier
  • Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. -- Dick Gregory
  • I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. -- David Bowie
  • Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. -- Henry B. Eyring
  • Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias. -- Michael Ignatieff
  • A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. -- Edmund Barton
  • When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table. -- Janet Yellen
  • The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition. -- Jakob Bohme
  • Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify. -- Dale Archer
  • I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify. -- Radhanath Swami
  • If someone were to actually come to one of our training sessions, there's lots of flipping and sweating and crying and blood going on all over the place. I mean, if that doesn't qualify it as a sport, then I don't know what does. -- Meryl Davis
  • Grace is the divine assistance or heavenly help each of us desperately needs to qualify for the celestial kingdom. Thus, the enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity. -- David A. Bednar
  • Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. -- Muhammad Yunus
  • A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events. -- Robert D. Kaplan
  • While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits. -- Adam Braun
  • Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness. -- Henry B. Eyring
  • God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God. -- Henry B. Eyring
  • I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow. -- Eric Bana
  • As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written by travelers who have been there, so may he visit the super-physical realms if he will but qualify himself therefor, or he may learn what others who have so qualified themselves report as a result of their investigations. -- Max Heindel
  • We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death. -- Henry B. Eyring
  • Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences. -- Bryant H. McGill
  • Who the Lord calls, the Lord will qualify. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards. -- Jennifer Capriati
  • It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays. -- Stephanie Mills
  • Jesus will never qualify or compromise anything he has said. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • Being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. -- Fred Thompson
  • I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity. -- Martin Bashir
  • If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer. -- Zig Ziglar
  • Skills do not qualify or disqualify any of us from our purpose. -- Ricky Maye
  • Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring. -- Barbara Holland
  • When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. -- Tom Robbins
  • How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie. -- Bob Mould
  • I do not qualify to be a model. I lack the necessary obedience. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  • You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both. -- Lou Reed
  • Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario. -- Landon Donovan
  • If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job. -- Jack Hyles
  • Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps. -- Patricia Ireland
  • It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low. -- Patricia Schroeder
  • My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive? -- Ray Stevens
  • Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners. -- William Congreve
  • Do transvestites have to dress up for Halloween or do they pretty much qualify from the get-go? -- Dana Gould
  • I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. -- Ajay Naidu
  • Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero. -- Velupillai Prabhakaran
  • Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician. -- Graham Taylor
  • Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for? -- Jon Lovitz
  • Those who constantly qualify everything and have no opinions of their own are ultimately just as incapable of tolerance. -- Wolfgang Schauble
  • I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'. -- Zach Braff
  • Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it. -- Horace Bushnell
  • When you accept that there is no success greater than inner-peace and contentment, you instantly qualify yourself for more success. -- Bryant McGill
  • My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties. -- Jeremy Thomas
  • The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women. -- Thomas Haden Church
  • Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it. -- Rio Ferdinand
  • I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home. -- Matt Kuchar
  • Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest. -- Ann M. Dibb
  • Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible. -- Joseph Stiglitz
  • Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. -- Harold Ramis
  • Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds. -- John Leo
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  • Cubans must prove that they're political refugees. And if they can prove that they're really fleeing persecution, well, they would qualify as refugees. -- Marco Rubio
  • Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify. -- Robert Fulghum
  • [It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. -- Richard Dawkins
  • That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables. -- Tony Snow
  • The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. -- Julie B. Beck
  • I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder. -- Daniel Woodrell
  • In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through a lucky guess. -- Ernest Sosa
  • Often the very things that you think have disqualified you are the ones that qualify you to do what God has called you to do. -- Christine Caine
  • Actually I think I have forgotten how it was back then. Or probably not - I didn't qualify. There were only 16 cars in the race. -- Bernie Ecclestone
  • I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia. -- Heinrich Heine
  • I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason. -- William Shakespeare
  • I won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I won 16 matches in 15 days. -- Ana Ivanovic
  • The problem is that your daughter has given her heart to a 15-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old boy does not yet qualify as a human being. -- Bill Cosby
  • Personal growth does not require a pre-qualification from anyone; pre-qualify yourself towards your potential; your mind and faith will start propelling your focus in that direction. -- Wayne Chirisa
  • Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it. -- Guy de Maupassant
  • Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway. -- Cassandra Clare
  • If people are watching me 365 days a year, 360 days they might be bored to tears. And on the other five days, maybe I would qualify as Satan. -- Rob Lowe
  • May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things. -- James E. Faust
  • Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify. -- James Patterson
  • All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
  • I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had. -- John Mellencamp
  • Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science. -- Karl Popper
  • Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ. -- Timothy Keller
  • I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too bad to qualify for an English degree. -- Josh Lieb
  • The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.' -- John Drane
  • Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task that [Edward] Said describes, surely an important one. -- Noam Chomsky
  • When we qualify for the help of the Lord, we can build boys, we can mend men, we can accomplish miracles in His holy service. Our opportunities are without limit. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • I urge all who have not yet received these greatest of all blessings within the walls of the temple to do whatever may be necessary to qualify to receive them. -- James E. Faust
  • Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood. -- John Money
  • I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur. -- Anne Fadiman
  • The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth. -- Aristotle
  • It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate. -- Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks
  • The secret of high finance...if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money. -- Joanne Fluke
  • I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down. -- Charles M. Schwab
  • Am I in trouble? He chortled, "well, a bunch of not-so-friendly thugs were waiting to ambush you and blow up your apartment. If that doesn't qualify as trouble, I don't know what does. -- Melissa Cutler
  • My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me. -- Stephanie Mills
  • John's old Caddie had a huge engine that would qualify as a human rights violation if built today. It roared down the road, chugging gas and farting a blue cloud of dinosaur souls. -- David Wong
  • But fundamentally, I don't think of it as an alien-invasion movie; everybody's here, kind of, right? So, I think it's probably more of an action-adventure picture, if I actually had to qualify it. -- Lorenzo di Bonaventura
  • I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. -- Conrad Veidt
  • The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I pray that we may qualify for those blessings and rejoice forever. -- Russell M. Nelson
  • To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys. -- Vanessa Mae
  • Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be President. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character that civilizations from the beginning of history have sought in their leaders. -- Fred Thompson
  • You can call it what you like, categorize it, vivisect it, qualify, quantify, or dismiss it, and none of it will make grace anything other than precisely what grace is: audacious, unwarranted, and unlimited. -- Cathleen Falsani
  • I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status. -- Jerry Falwell
  • Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead. -- Jasmine Cresswell
  • Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace. -- Stephen Colbert
  • Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses. -- Norman Macbeth
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