Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Charlie Gonzalez

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

David Puttnam

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Cary Fowler

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

Cary Fowler

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

Cary Fowler

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

Carter G. Woodson

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Alan Greenspan

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

Marian Salzman

There is a straight (heterosexual) man who embraced a mention of femininity. He responded to those marketing messages but ultimately had a reaction that's pushed him back to traditional masculinity.

Chris Cichocki

We set the 20-win mark a week or so ago, and we can still make it if we play well down the stretch. The team has embraced the idea.

Pope John

The pope, in his heart and with his words of encouragement, embraces all who suffer injustice.

Eric Maskin

Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.

Calista Flockhart

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

Kathy Murray

We are a true melting pot, and we made it work. It's really important that Moss Point embrace that idea.

John Barrowman

Wherever I am, I will embrace the life and the lifestyle. I've lived in Hollywood before, and we've moved into the old neighbourhood in West Hollywood. I love California.

Pat Haden

Where some people were bemoaning some of these things that surround the program, I think he has embraced them and turned them into positives.

Gretchen Rubin

Embrace good smells. No cost, no calories, no energy, no time - a quick hit of pleasure.

Bob Tucker

We have motor escorts in other places - maybe two (officers) to take us to a main event - but not for practices, players' dinners, and other events like we have here.

Steve Jocz

We were trying to joke around as much as possible. Well, as much as you could in that . . . eventually it got really not funny.

Geoff Coulson

We've seen worse, but I'm sure there are people in parts of Toronto who were not happy to see any rain after the events of Aug. 19.

Darren Dopp

We've seen this in other industries we've investigated. There's a moment where everyone is frozen with self-examination, and then things improve. These reforms will eventually expand opportunities for artists.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Trinny Woodall

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

Karen Mitchell

We use more than 1,000 volunteers just on this event. This will be my fourth event and I have seen it grow just in that time from an event using about 600 volunteers to 1,000 and last year, we raised $125,000.

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Cass Sunstein

Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.

Laith Kubba

Muslim extremists will be surrounded then wiped out,

R. Inge

The government of Afghanistan should prove that they are protectors of freedom by releasing Abdul Rahman and protecting him from extremist elements.

Ben Johnson

The opening salvo of Commander-in-Chief is a guilt trip for all those Americans who thought an unelected (and then-unelectable) feminist extremist should refrain from imposing her will upon the nation.

Ron Lewis

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.

Vladimir Putin

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

Najib Razak

We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

We are not racists or extremists in the Front National. We are people who love our country.

Najib Razak

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

Isaiah Stanback

Louis was going to surprise a lot of people, but he wasn't going to surprise us. What he did in that game, he can do more.

Bill Wagner

Louisville is notable for its accomplishments, but on the primary health-care side, we struggle to meet the needs.

Victor Shum

Louisiana refineries can process that, but they are shut down.

Peter Fricker

Louise is going gangbusters and her recovery is getting better and better from day to day,

Pat Riley

I have a Louisville Slugger in my locker. It's like 42 ounces. We corked it also, with cement.

Mickey Loomis

If we can uplift anyone, obviously that's worthwhile to us. We're representatives of the people of Louisiana and the people of New Orleans.

Andy Kindler

I'm not really in Louis CK's circle. It'd probably be harder if we were really close and I went off on him.

David Robertson

the real relationship to actually be in St. Louis and start to really make the music with people.

Andy Kopplin

We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.

Jason Bruffy

Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here.

Mike Black

We were trying to maintain where we were at (down by 10), but when you can't score it makes it really hard. Chesterton started playing better on offense, and we played worse.

Jamie Bamber

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

Al Crellin

Ultimately, we only need one operations center, but for now we will maintain two.

David Heymann

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Gretchen Rubin

I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise.

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Kate Bush

One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

James Lasdun

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.

Al Sharpton

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

Avan Jogia

Before I forget ...Beware the Ides of March.

Rudy Cruz

We're making up for winter now. March is December.

Efren Barajas

Let's push for 20,000 people marching that day.

Barbara Boxer

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

David Brooks

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Chris Vos

Now we are getting ready for the March 6 strike.

Tony Bryant

I don't know anything about it. I'm just working out to get ready for the season. ... When I get back to New Orleans on March 20, I'll find out what's going on.

Don Kelly

Two or more of the participants in the march -- young men -- had an argument,

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Mark Williams

Probably Adelaide (deserve it), they're on top. It's a noted thing to win the McClelland Trophy.

Alcee Hastings

It pains me to report that progress noted in the pre-election period was undermined by significant deficiencies in the count.

Bob Bowlsby

They called and notified me they'd like to talk with Steve and I noted their interest. That's all there was to it.

Jay Taylor

Everything was pretty slow, which is fine. We want to stand in solidarity on the issue.

Martin Schulz

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

Jose Bergamin

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

Pope Francis

We must not be afraid of solidarity; rather let us make all we have and are available to God.

Kimberley Nixon

I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

Davis III

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Joseph Tate

I never once suggested that she should not testify. It was just the opposite. I told Mr. Abrams that the waiver was voluntary.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Diane von Furstenberg

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Elizabeth Wilson

It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Brenda Ueland

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.