Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

David Kim

The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well.

Caitlin Stasey

Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them.

Bill Johnson

Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!

Beyonce Knowles

So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority... We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

Audre Lorde

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .

Penny Lancaster

was the most empowering and spiritual experience of my life.

Ariel Winter

We as women need to empower each other.

Camille Paglia

before feminism was, Paglia was!

Camille Paglia

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Caitlin Moran

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

Dennis Miller

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

Bella Abzug

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

bell hooks

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

bell hooks

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Dennis Prager

Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?

Charles Caleb Colton

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Chris Bosh

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

Jean Bruyere

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Janis Serrano

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.

Tim Zagat

Where it was once de rigueur to wear a tie in New York's finer establishments, that practice is now de rigor mortis.

Sam Perlozzo

When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.

Bertolt Brecht

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

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.

Bill Belichick

We're not polishing fine china here.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Alan Moore

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Alan Chambers

It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I've overcome the world. I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ, through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

Akhil Sharma

Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.

Akira Kurosawa

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Ann Coulter

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Aberjhani

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

Justin Trudeau

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

Sam Davis

Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

Mary Ann Mobley

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

Ray Kurzweil

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I am sure that my supporters will understand me.

Christopher Meyer

O'Bleness is a hospital. We are supporters of that hospital,

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

George W. Bush

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Erik Paulsen

I'm not a supporter of ObamaCare. I voted to repeal it, to defund it, et cetera. But we do need to move on.

Rafa Benitez

I was with our supporters at the end. I could see him but he didn't want to.

Jose Mourinho

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

Serena Williams

I'm a big supporter of this product for women. And [my relationship with the brand Berlei] was so organic. I would go to the store and buy 40 or 50 bras every year because I could only get them in Australia at the time. And then eventually they heard that I would come and take all the stock.

Sean Young

I have a lot of supporters.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Charles Dickens

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

Alan Jay Lerner

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.