Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Krugman

But the vitriol also reflects the fact that many of the people at the Republican National Convention, for all their flag-waving, hate America. They want a controlled, monolithic society; they fear and loathe our nation's freedom, diversity and complexity.

Olympia Snowe

More mouthpieces doesn't guarantee diversity and localism and competition, ... Diversity of ownership does.

Nevada is a perfect testing ground for a candidate, given its diversity.

Bob Schneider

I can't perceive of a football playoff in the private school sector with a diversity of teams,

Cameron Crowe

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

Cesar Chavez

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Alan Dean Foster

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

Colin Quinn

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

Donella Meadows

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

Douglas Booth

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

Donna Tartt

Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes English great; and diversity is what keeps it healthy and growing, exuberantly regenerating itself with rich new forms and usages.

Daniel Quinn

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.

Daniel Boone

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

Cory Booker

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.

Anne Rice

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

Aga Khan IV

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

E. O. Wilson

Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.

Donna Brazile

There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

Dorothy L. Sayers

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

Colleen Atwood

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

Dalai Lama

If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings

Dalai Lama

It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

Desmond Tutu

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Desmond Tutu

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Dan Simmons

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

Cliff Martinez

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

Tom Brady

He wanted students to understand the diversity of the world and it was something he said all the time to the kids. This is just so sad.

I think the president himself values diversity on the courts, ... It will be something that he'll consider. But I don't think it's more or less likely to be a factor because of poll ratings or anything else going on in the short-term news cycle.

I think the nature of the people that live here has something to do with it. You have a fair percentage of people that want to stay here. They find a way to make a living and stay here. You have a good work ethic. You have a diversity of different groups of people.

What Makes Racial Diversity Work in Higher Education.

There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way.