Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Stewart

We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.

Aime Cesaire

There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

With their inside prowess, it makes it more challenging to guard them. What makes them so special is their balanced. Stopping that trio of guards is equally challenging.

Mark Richt

We're just rolling them and evaluating them. We're rotating them as equally as we can.

Nicole Holofcener

Thrilled and petrified. Equal measures of both. Thrilled because I have a history with Sundance, which made this feel special and like a real honor. Petrified, I guess, because I think it's never good to go into a film with really high expectations. That can't be in my favor. That's not to say it won't meet them, but what if it doesn't? I hope people will have goodwill toward it.

Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Agnes Macphail

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

The people who had been in rebellion must necessarily come back into the Union, and be incorporated as an integral part of the nation. Naturally the nearer they were placed to equality with the people who had rebelled, the more reconciled they would

Calvin Coolidge

No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.

Calvin Coolidge

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

We seek a peaceful relation with the United States, a cooperative relation, an equal relation.

Andie MacDowell

I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.

Translation: Volume equals a seven-game series. ''Get us to Game 7 and we'll be in the ballpark. The last two Octobers, Fox has been the No. 1 network and we did it on the back of baseball.

Sathya Baba

You are not doing service for others. You are doing it always for yourselves, to the God in you, the God who is equally present in others.

While we are sure that some people will be disappointed not to see the furniture races, we think that pond skimming will be an equally hilarious event.

That's a terrible answer. There is no proportional representation requirement under the equal protection clause. If a first-year law student wrote that and submitted it in class, I would send it back and say it was unacceptable.

The merger of equals will catapult DaimlerChrysler into the industry's top three in market capitalization,

Hannah Arendt

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

It's regrettable what happened, but it's remarkable that the officer survived this encounter. It was equal measures of instinct, training and street survival skills.

I hope this gray horse, like Giacomo, keeps improving with each race and is headed for a big performance on the first Saturday in the May. Of course, we're hoping for an equally good performance in the Florida Derby.

Molly Harper

I loved my job at the paper. I loved meeting new people every day and never knowing where I would end up. But somehow, the ever-shifting schedules of a police officer and a reporter did not equal 'family friendly.' One of us needed to take a normal job for the sake of our young daughter.

Will Rogers

No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

Never put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by stupidity.

They are unselfish and they like each other, which equals excellent team chemistry.

They are uncertain about when they are going to be laid off, and they are equally uncertain about the future of their homes.

There should be equal justice for everyone, ... And if there is equal justice for everyone, it should equate to peace for everyone.

Robert Gottlieb

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

Charlie Trotter

Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

We want to make sure people understand that this does not equal getting rid of all their insulin shots.

Mariella Frostrup

What an unappealing responsibility that is to lumber any prospective lover with: the need to be a saviour, not simply an equal partner.

John Bradley

This material is 'time equals zero' for the solar system.

Pankaj Mishra

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.