Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alonzo Church

Veblen was a great advocate of getting together informally. His teas were in the same spirit. He believed in taking long walks through the woods to discuss mathematical research.

Lorraine Toussaint

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

Natasha Trethewey

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

Gary Sheffer

We have said all along that we will continue to advocate for our proposal and we are continuing to do that.

Kevin Smith

The fact it's repeatedly passed Chairman Pombo's committee would advocate for a vote, as would the fact the CNMI is the only U.S. territory without nonvoting representation.

Robert P. McCulloch

When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

Kathryn Lasky

My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.

John Deane

We have have been an advocate of world languages for a long time. And we've got to keep the place clean.

Kofi Annan

We are pressing ahead with our contingency planning and we hope to be ready to work with the African Union as we move forward to the implementation of the anticipated decision by the (UN) Security Council that we push ahead with the transition.

Rande Gerber

There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project.

Martin Jacques

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Nnedi Okorafor

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

Edward James Olmos

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

Eddie Murphy

Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.

Hafeez Khawaja

WD's steady growth in the MENA region encouraged us to further expand our operations in this region. We will enter new, untapped regional markets, and at the same time strengthen operations in existing ones. At the centre of WD's expansion strategy are the rapidly evolving and promising African markets, such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria and Kenya. The former three have high IT literacy levels.

Cassandra Wilson

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Judith Kipper

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

Joschka Fischer

When I heard that yesterday, I was very diplomatic and didn't pull a face. But in my head you could imagine what I was seeing: I saw people sitting around in dreadlocks with joints in their hands, and reggae music playing in the background.

Michael Carty

Yesterday (Monday) was a technical rally. There's still a lot of uncertainty about a potential recession and about what's going to happen on the diplomatic front.

Christopher Dodd

I don't think we've been muscular enough, if you will, at the diplomatic table. I don't disagree that we ought to leave the military option on the table.

Joe Wilcox

I would not say this is a sign of great openness. It's more like establishing diplomatic relations between two countries, rather than opening borders.

Tom Casey

We support the . . . efforts and the proposal they have put forward to find a diplomatic solution to this problem.

Donald Rumsfeld

to embark on a diplomatic initiative to work with North Korea to see if they wouldn't reverse their position of violating these three or four agreements.

Ye Xiaowen

We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.

Adam Ereli

Our focus remains on diplomatic efforts to get six-party talks under way as a means of reaching the goal of a dismantlement of the North Korean program and a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.

Louis Navellier

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

Kim Polese

We have no preset notion of how the model will look.

Thierry Mugler

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.

Deborah Abbott

We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.

Caitriona Balfe

Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

Cameron Russell

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

Gennifer Flowers

I don't think Bill is a role model for anyone.

Jesse Toprak

I think the moral of the month was that the more gas-efficient models did well.

Taylor Handley

When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!

Tenzin Gyatso

When things are desperate, there is no need to pretend that everything is beautiful.

Martin Freeman

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

Angus Young

From The Beginning, Ac/Dc Nerver Pretended To Be Anything Other Than A No-Frills,No Bullshit Blues-Rock Band.

Eric Maskin

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

Ruth Rendell

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Andrew Lincoln

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Anna Netrebko

In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Eliza Haywood

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Benjamin Franklin

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.