Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Dennis Prager

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Dennis Haysbert

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot to do it, and they embraced that and said, "All right, come on in. Let's see what you've got." So, I went in, and the rest is history. It felt good when I went into the office, and it just worked.

Deborah Smith

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

Elbert Hubbard

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Eleanor Roosevelt

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Chris Crutcher

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Dennis Prager

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

Dionne Warwick

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

Walter Benjamin

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

Walter Benjamin

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

Alan Ball

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

David Cross

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

Loretta Napoleoni

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is not an article for export.

George Orwell

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

Leon Trotsky

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

Ronald Reagan

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal.