Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Bellamy

I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer.

Carol Bellamy

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

James Baldwin

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

Julius Streicher

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.

When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

Fair market value, by definition, is the price at which a willing seller will sell and a willing buyer will buy.

Juan Cole

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation.

Paul Farmer

Well, I don't think that the role of the pharmaceutical industry is any different from that of other transnational corporations.

The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States.

Seth Lloyd

The other neat thing about these quantum computers is that they're also storing a bit of information on every available degree of freedom.

Horace Mann

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Michael Cooper

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

Seth Lloyd

People are becoming more and more interested in science, and that's because they realize that science impacts their daily lives in important ways.

I think one of the best things you can do, no matter what you play, is to take up piano. Music is based on chord changes and harmonies, and you can get 'em more out of an instrument like piano, where you can hear all the notes at once.

Temple Grandin

Junior high was a real mess for me and then came puberty. My anxiety attacks came during puberty, and then all of my nerves started.

Booker T. Washington

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Marvin Olasky

President Bush has been careful in his statements specifically about Iraq to emphasize that we are on a long, winding and sometimes deadly road.

Juan Cole

Unlike a lot of American specialists in the Middle East, who did one Fulbright year and now find their language is rusty, I kept up my Arabic.

Paul Farmer

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.

Paul Farmer

Well, we've worked with our friends in Haiti to establish nothing short of a modern medical center in one of the poorest parts of that country.

Seth Lloyd

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

Michael Pollan

When the choice comes down to industrial organic or local, I opt for the local, because it supports much more than good agricultural practice.

UNICEF's Voices of Youth has organized many Internet chats, like the one you participated in, among children and teachers around the world.

Alan Dundes

We should beware of stereotypes as they tend to cramp thinking, but on the other hand, stereotypes exist and they are often transmitted via folklore.

Morrie Schwartz

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

Paul Farmer

At the same time, the fact the world's poor are calling upon us to help is a marker, in my view, of the limitless potential of human solidarity.

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.

Seth Low

On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.

Booker T. Washington

No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Dennis Banks

Then a strong bond develops as they ride together, pray together, eat meals together, and gather in the evening remembering the day's run.