Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Connelly

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.

Beverly Cleary

The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up.

Toni Cade Bambara

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Sandra Cisneros

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Tim Collins

This was a team that truly learned the meaning of (what it is like to) be a team, and they can take that with them the rest of their lives.

Elizabeth Janeway

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Elizabeth Janeway

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

Evan Hunter

It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

Marie Kondo

The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.

Tariq Ramadan

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

Tucker Carlson

We're here to love you, not confront you.

James E. Faust

Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in the small events of life as well as when they are confronted with the giant Goliaths of life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.

Tom DeLay

There is no negotiating with a man like this, ... There is no safe path to accommodate his ambitions. Our only responsible option was to confront this threat before more Americans die. He must be removed from power.

Dan Harel

We're going to outnumber everybody. We have the technology, the knowledge and the will to confront (defiant settlers).

Bill Parcells

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

Michael Leunig

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

Alan Lewis

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Derek Lam

There is a long list of negative news today,

Ray Soudah

There is a long buyers' list and a short sellers' list.

John Orton

We set up a wiretapping operation in a flophouse where we listened to their conversations, which were in German, and then translated and recorded the conversations of the Nazi spies,

Brian Eno

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Bret Easton Ellis

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

David Amram

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.