Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard M. Nixon

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

Vandana Shiva

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

Richard Dawkins

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.

Veronica Roth

I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.

Samuel Johnson

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Wangari Maathai

We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process.

Tony Shalhoub

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

Van Jones

In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.

U Thant

The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

William Golding

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.

Sonia Sotomayor

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

Tim Berners-Lee

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

Thomas Friedman

That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers.

Herbie Hancock

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

Jill Scott

I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

Jean de La Fontaine

Diversity, that is my motto.

Jeb Bush

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

Jawaharlal Nehru

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

Hillary Clinton

America already is great, but we are great because we are good, and we will respect one another, and we will work with one another, and we will celebrate our diversity.

Hannah Arendt

Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the "human status" without which the very words "mankind" or "humanity" would be devoid of meaning.

Hannah Arendt

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

George Bernard Shaw

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Christine Lagarde

Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.

George Takei

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

George R. R. Martin

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

Gene Roddenberry

The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

Felix Adler

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

Francis Bacon

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

So students would be meeting with faculty in the evening, talking about issues of race, diversity and ethnicity.

Robert Greenblatt

I've just always been a proponent of having a lot of diversity in the shows I've done. I just think that's the world we live in.

Florence Nightingale

For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Studies show that one of every four people reads an ethnic newspaper. This shows that ethnic newspapers have a place and purpose in serving our diverse population.