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american-activist great life nation poisoned seen truly virtuous woman
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. Lucretia Mott
american-activist control hope
Our only hope is to control the vote. Medgar Evers
american-activist cigarette mug sign sure
When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object. John Gates
american-activist changed god grabbed hold looked months saved three totally
When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since. Michael Scott
american-activist increase
If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.
american-activist gorilla
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.
american-activist holds learned slip
They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away. George Jackson
american-activist conditions continue forces grows production rigid system
The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
american-activist behind capitalist conditions forces further holding productive society
Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
fine source benevolence
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
fine i-can
I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best. Chris Bosh
fine moved pleasure
The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
fine improve race rebuilding techniques trying
We're in a rebuilding process, we're doing fine for where we're at. We're just trying to improve on their race techniques and have them do their best.
finer practice rigor tie wear
Where it was once de rigueur to wear a tie in New York's finer establishments, that practice is now de rigor mortis.
finest men talked
When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.
finest emperor plans
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing. Bertolt Brecht
finest spoiled should
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
fine-china fine china
We're not polishing fine china here. Bill Belichick
leadership hope encouragement
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
leadership steps arrogant
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us. Charles Stanley
leadership decision benefits
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. Alan Autry
leadership sports winning
So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself. Al Oerter
leadership basketball sports
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. Al McGuire
leadership sports zero
I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
leadership voice ideals
The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them. Aiden Wilson Tozer
leadership work reality
I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it. Chris Christie
leadership health eye
The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.
managers
I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher
managers
I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried. Namie Amuro
manager smooth stage
You look for a stage manager who really is in charge, who can really smooth things out.
manager pad paper tom tv whatever wrote
I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper. Paul Anka
managers owners
The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains. Ted Lindsay
managers smartest
He is one of the smartest managers around.
managers rejected support talk trying
We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.
managers
Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us. Bill Lee
managers property pros reached sort staunch students talked trying
We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point. Michael Bell
maybe reason smile though understand waking
We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.
maybe people recovery
We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.
maybe sure top
We still need a point, maybe two, to be sure of being in the top four.
maybe-tomorrow office president
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office. Ed Gillespie
maybe mike mitchell player productive replace somewhat talented though trying
We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.
maybe
We are getting better with each game. Maybe we are peaking at the right time.
maybe
We're going to have to put 12 of them out there, ... maybe some snipers, too.
maybe tough toughest
We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.
maybe
We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.
office funeral coffins
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.
office words-of-wisdom castles
... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.
office president half
Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking
office house looks
My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office. David Morrissey
office library desks
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
office people individual
People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.
office important affair
Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office. Dave Barry
office done casting
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity. William Shakespeare
offices responsibility terms wives
There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.
power overcoming cowardice
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
powerful weak said
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
power two age
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
powerful forgiving easy
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
powerful heaven goddess
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
powerful heart vanity
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
powerful lying believe
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.
powerful evil spirit
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ. Charles Spurgeon
powerful church christ
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.