Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We want the Persian Gulf to be a gulf of friendship and equality,

Charlie Trotter

Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

Byron Katie

Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

Byron Katie

Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

Ulysses Grant

The people who had been in rebellion must necessarily come back into the Union, and be incorporated as an integral part of the nation. Naturally the nearer they were placed to equality with the people who had rebelled, the more reconciled they would

Kip Harris

When you've got to put together your hits and runs to equal your errors, you're not going to win many games in this league.

Lawrence Bender

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

Barney Frank

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

David Mitchell

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

Aziz Ansari

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

John Thorne

From imported professionals it should have been a short step to hiring men of varying ethnic and racial backgrounds, and it was.

Cliff Curtis

I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster.

James Carville

If we think about it, in terms of racial and ethnic strife or things, if we don't forgive, we'll just stay the same. If we don't forgive people, we can never make any progress.

Fisher DeBerry

has a zero-tolerance policy for any racial or ethnic discrimination or discrimination of any kind.

Humam Hammoudi

guarantees freedoms and equalizes between everyone, women and men and different ethnic groups and respects the ideologies of this nation and the religion of this society.

Mark Almond

Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- it lies in a strategic valley,

Christopher Haiman

We observed quite striking differences. This suggests there are racial and ethnic differences in the smoking-related risk of lung cancer.

Walter Miller

We want them to see exactly the way we do it in Nashville ? there's no reason to change.

Dr. Currier

We want to stay exactly as long as they need and not one day more.

James Woods

We know exactly what our plant is going to cost,

Rob Sumner

We know exactly what happened and what we need to do. If you throw enough shots at the net, one will go in. You don't win many games with only 18 shots on net.

James Harrington

We know exactly what had to be done and we executed it well,

Dave Barry

What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo

Bob Poole

The other pieces I'm not exactly sure of.

Carter Jordan

The positives are we got four underclassmen out here to see exactly what we were talking about.

Gretchen Rubin

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

Edgar Degas

I don't admit that a woman draws that well!

bell hooks

Patriarchy has no gender.

Bernard Pivot

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Barbara Bush

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Eleanor Smeal

I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

Gillian Armstrong

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

Caitlyn Jenner

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

Susan Griffin

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

Noeleen Heyzer

UNIFEM is proud to have supported the Ministry of Gender and Development, and women's organizing throughout Liberia to reach this truly historic achievement.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

Geoffrey Kors

Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Tom Bradley

The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Karen Bradley

We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

Mike McCarthy

We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there,

Darl Keller

We still miss Todd, especially. He had something the kids really listened to. This year's group (of seniors), they're working hard at that but they're just not quite there yet, not with as many young kids as we have now. Aaron's really helping in that regard.

Bryan White

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

Catherine Hardwicke

Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

Denis Leary

There's no male Oprah.

Barbara Walters

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

Barbara Tuchman

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

Desi Arnaz

I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation.

Carol P. Christ

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

Edward Abbey

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

Nick Nolte

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

Charles Taze Russell

I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason.

Charles Dickens

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Niaz Siddiqui

I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating.

Bill Golden

It's scaled down in terms of the days, but I think it's more targeted now.

Mark Williams

That's targeted as one of our big projects.