Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jakob Nielsen

Diversity is power on the Web. Big sites may be bigger, but smaller sites will keep scoring higher for specialized topics, both in terms of their connections with users and in terms of each visit's commercial value.

Jacqueline Woodson

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

James Frey

L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

Isaac Asimov

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

Irene Rosenfeld

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

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.

Jeb Bush

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

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.

Jean de La Fontaine

Diversity, that is my motto.

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.

Jack Kilby

Space was of interest, but a major driving factor was the interest in the military, which had much broader, more diverse needs, more urgency with it.

The threats we face are more diverse than ever.

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

Teenagers are likely to spend money regardless of the trend. If there is no trend, they just spend on a more diverse set of products.

That's why you see a lot of diversity of winners here. It's letting guys have a lot of chances.

Abraham Foxman

All along, Louis Farrakhan and his minions have suggested that this march will be different, that it will embrace diversity in a show of solidarity and strength. Now we see what he means. Already the sideshows surrounding this event are being stacked with noted racists and anti-Semites on the extremist fringe. One can only wonder what this portends for the main event itself.

Those towns show vitality and maintain a diversity of businesses. There were more examples of these type of communities in Indiana than any other state.

We want to do something to promote diversity on campus.

Thicket by thicket and wetland by wetland, we were losing the Greater Golden Horseshoe's remaining wilderness and diversity of life. The greenbelt is stopping the loss of natural features and the species they host.

Thomas Harris

The way, I think, to make that happen is for the (Oktoberfest) leadership team to invite groups and people into the planning. (They'd) open the door to people from those diverse backgrounds.

These are the perfect places to expand because you can tap into diverse talent at each of these sites. Here in Washington, we're very excited that we're participating in Amgen's growth.

Bill Richardson

There will be some of that -- obviously -- because you've got a lot of speakers, diverse speakers -- you've got all of the wings of the party here.

We just had some really great races. Our divers did a really nice job on the board.

We will not be able to function as competitively in the worldwide economy if we are not a diverse legal team. It's not optional in my view.

I know that they are making a push for fashion, but I think their stable of offerings is not as extensive or diverse as Target's.

Doing it this way is not going to have a diverse committee. It's going to be lopsided.