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I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. -- Noel Coward
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. -- John Steinbeck
I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body. -- William Booth
Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone. -- Sarah Palin
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. -- Robert K. Merton
The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job. -- Paula Scher
If we feel unqualified and feel grateful for an opportunity to serve, then Krishna will bestow in our hearts. -- Radhanath Swami
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government. -- Frances Farenthold
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it. -- John Green
He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place. -- John Grogan
As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and self-serving. -- John Stossel
[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies. -- Frank Sinatra
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me. -- D. A. Carson
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. -- Henrik Ibsen
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. -- Andrew Jackson
The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused. -- Edward Abbey
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success. -- Fran Lebowitz
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. -- Winston Churchill
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. -- Mark Twain
But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth. -- Michael Jackson
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. -- Albert Schweitzer
Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value. -- Arnold Schoenberg
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I'm unqualified to do anything other than music. -- St. Vincent
I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this. -- Catherine Keener
Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest. -- Richard Perle
Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans. -- John Grogan
I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training. -- Alison Moyet
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified! -- Philip Yancey
I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else. -- Jason Patric
I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics. -- Tony Benn
If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success. -- Paul Hoffman
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. -- Angelina Grimke
I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family. -- Gary Ackerman
John McCain knows as well as anyone that Sarah Palin has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. I'm sorry, it's got nothing to do with the fact that she wears skirts - she's grossly unqualified. -- Ron Reagan
Despite an unqualified understanding that U.S. national security was inextricably bound up with Britain's survival, F.D.R. knew that his reelection in part rested on the hope that he would keep the country out of war. -- Robert Dallek
I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter', and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success. -- Holt McCallany
Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden's pronouncement aimed to give the president some political cover. -- Robert Dallek
I want to be very clear: whenever it is possible to capture a suspected terrorist, it is the unqualified preference of the administration to take custody of that individual so we can obtain information that is vital to the safety and security of the American people. -- John O. Brennan
America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility. -- Jennifer Granholm
I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why do you want to go here?' And I took out all of my comedy writing samples that I had done. I couldn't have been more delusional in terms of what I thought they wanted in a candidate for college. -- Mike Birbiglia
Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned. -- Plato
I'm completely unqualified for any job I've ever had. -- Rachael Ray
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. -- Albert Schweitzer
Darren Levine has my unqualified support and gratitude for his contributions to Krav Maga. -- Imi Lichtenfeld
When you're willing to do what you're unqualified to do, that's what qualifies you. -- Bill Johnson
I can take any amount of criticism, as long as it is unqualified praise. -- Noel Coward
Donald Trump is misogynist and a racist; he is thin-skinned and beyond unqualified to be president. -- Chrissy Teigen
To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.... -- Richard Hofstadter
Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament. -- Rush Limbaugh
Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament. -- Rush Limbaugh
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. -- Jonathan Swift
The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act. -- David V. Gaggin
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism ... -- Angelina Grimke
If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance. -- John W. Gardner
Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect. -- Jan Struther
I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry. -- Cheon Eunbi
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. -- Aldous Huxley
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there. -- Maureen Reagan
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified! -- Philip Yancey
I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on. -- Ernest Sosa
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Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified. -- Samuel Johnson
The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk? -- Ron Reagan
It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation. -- Edmund Burke
Don't get stampeded by what people around you value. The task is to figure out what YOU value - and value highly enough to throw yourself into with unqualified passion. -- David Maister
Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power -- Stokely Carmichael
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt. -- Thomas Huxley
The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history. -- Gustavo Gutiérrez

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