Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitney Houston

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

Wangari Maathai

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Kofi Annan

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Lily Tomlin

The road to success is always under construction.

Lily Tomlin

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Lily Tomlin

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Liam Neeson

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

Lena Horne

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Laurie Anderson

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

Temple Grandin

If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.

Temple Grandin

I am different, not less

Ted Koppel

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

Ted Hughes

You are who you choose to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Shirley Chisholm

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Shirley Chisholm

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Shari Arison

I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.

Lee Kuan Yew

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.

Lee Kuan Yew

I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.

Lee Kuan Yew

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

Lee Kuan Yew

I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

Lee Kuan Yew

Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

Lee Kuan Yew

I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.

Lee Kuan Yew

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Lee Kuan Yew

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

Larry Ellison

I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.

Marc Jacobs

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

Ruth Graham

My job is to take care of the possible and to trust God with the impossible.

Roxane Gay

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.