Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Blakely

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

Sally Ride

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

Kitty Kelley

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

R. D. Laing

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

Shirley Chisholm

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Dan Ariely

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Winston Churchill

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

William Arthur Ward

The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.

Oswald Chambers

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Lucy Stone

Leave women to find their sphere.

Charles de Lint

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?

David Harvey

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

Robert H. Schuller

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Sri Chinmoy

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Reggie Watts

Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.

Rick Derringer

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

Yehuda Berg

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

Jimmy Fallon

Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously

Elizabeth Olsen

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Art Spiegelman

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

David Foster Wallace

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

Tina Fey

...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

Sigmund Freud

The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

Serj Tankian

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.