Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne LaFollette

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Tawakkol Karman

Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people.

Abigail Adams

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Bhagavad Gita

Learn from Me briefly, O Arjuna, how one who has attained such perfection realizes Brahman, the supreme state of knowledge.

Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Bertha von Suttner

How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.

Leo Nikolaevich

Was it by reason that I attained the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason!

Ellen Key

When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.

Gustave Meyrink

This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he who has found the way once, always returns to this world with an internal maturity that enables him to continue his work.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Desiderius Erasmus

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

Brennan Manning

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

Diane Neal

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Jennifer Schack

We're heading up to 76 degrees today, which is 6 degrees warmer than yesterday.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

David McCullough

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Catherine Bell

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.

Mehmet Okur

We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight.

Michael Lynch

We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

David Suzuki

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.

Edward Gibbon

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Bodhidharma

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Abdullah Ocalan

A society can never be free without women’s liberation

Marianne Williamson

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

Abdullah Ocalan

Our movement is the liberation movement of the Turkish people,

Ian Smith

The legislation is so draconian it even surpasses Ian Smith's own legislation during the liberation struggle.

Atharva Veda

Contemplating and meditating on the 'real-self' accelerates this process of self-development and makes liberation possible.

Granth Sahib

They perform all sorts of rituals, but they do not obtain liberation through them. They wander around the countryside, and in love with duality, they are ruined.

Pico Iyer

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

Susan Faludi

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Charlie Bewley

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

Billy Joel

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Miriam Santiago

Times have changed. It has already worn out its value,

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

Heather Brooke

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.