Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Andrew Solomon

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Anna Sewell

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Andrew Bernstein

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Simone Beauvoir

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Terrence McNally

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.

Harry Belafonte

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Ken Wilber

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Steve Smith

Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Tom Bodett

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

David Hewson

I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.

Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Banksy

One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

Arthur Peacocke

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Michael Chetcuti

We're going to restore the original part of the building, not so that it is historically correct, but for other uses.

Karl Hobbs

Let's have some poise. Let's have some patience.

Bill Cowher

Mr. Rooney was very supportive through three non-playoff years (1998-2000), and I'm very appreciative of his patience.

Charles Spurgeon

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

Debra Winger

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

Dave Navarro

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

Abraham Lincoln

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Josh Green

I can get a feel for what it is actually like. It takes a lot patience.

CeeLo Green

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

David Gross

reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.

Norm Brunswig

These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

Steve Klesaris

She stood out pretty strong on our list. She had the qualities we liked.

Tom Davies

I think he's very well prepared. I think he has all the qualities you have to have.

Rig Veda

In real worship,we just not do ritualistic worship but we try to imbibe the qualities of the one we are worshipping.