Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Smith

We just wanted it more. They played hard, so we had to dig down deep. We made sure that we executed in the second half.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Swami Vivekananda

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

Swami Vivekananda

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

Swami Vivekananda

Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

Swami Vivekananda

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

Swami Vivekananda

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

Swami Vivekananda

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

Swami Vivekananda

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

Swami Vivekananda

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.

Martha Graham

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

Marguerite Young

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I dropped out of college my junior year to do saturday night live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

Moliere

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.

Molly Ivins

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.