Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol P. Christ

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

Carlos Mencia

Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.

Carlos Castaneda

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

Carlos Castaneda

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

C. S. Lewis

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

C. S. Lewis

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

David Graeber

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Arthur Scargill

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

Caroline Lucas

When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Henry Miller

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

Julian Assange

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

Howard Zinn

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Dennis Schain

Ultimately, before they build, we'll inspect to make sure the plan has addressed all the issues and will be implemented properly.

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.