Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zadie Smith

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Pat Conroy

I thought I'd stumbled onto Pluto. What I did not realize, I had stumbled into the great lie. They were separate but there was no equality whatsoever.

B. R. Ambedkar

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

B. R. Ambedkar

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Carl Schmid

Basically, it said, 'we support non-discrimination, and equality for all' -- except for gay people.

Anastasia Griffith

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

Lakhdar Brahimi

What we have learned from that struggle is the importance of freedom, the importance of mobilization, the importance of justice, equality, and so on.

Allison Davis

He lives in those of us who work hard to fulfill his mission of equality and opportunity. For all of us, he is very much alive.

Chuck Palahniuk

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

David Friedman

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

Brodie Croyle

That was a tough Texas Tech team. They fought and fought and fought.

Donald Rumsfeld

that will redefine how war is fought and won, and how the peace is kept.

Steve Koehler

That was a hurtful loss. We started with zero energy, very lethargic. But the girls fought back in the second half.

Manson Hill

We could have given in there and quit. For a long time, we couldn't find our rhythm, but we stayed patient and fought back.

Matt Blair

We could have folded, but I'm really proud of how our kids fought back.

Craig Manning

We played OK. The girls fought hard and had a good attitude, and it was enough for today. But we still have things we can work on.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

Richard Ferlauto

That was the first flexing of shareholder muscle and that shareholders were emphasizing the importance of splitting those roles.

Dick Gephardt

Members understand the importance of what is being done here and they want to do it right,

Andrew Luck

Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.

Isabelle Arthur

We do understand the importance of our service to the community.

Rich Miano

With all of that, they should at least maintain a 3.0. I'm all for anything to make these kids realize the importance of an education.

Jared Borgetti

We know it will be of secondary importance to Brazil-Argentina, but we'll be approaching it with the seriousness it deserves.

Maria Cantwell

We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.

Marc Johnson

Portals still play an important role. But there is truth to the idea that their importance may have been overblown.

Patricia Johnson

Nobody of importance has spoken to me yet. It's not Virginia. She was nice and respectful. Her staff was rude, disrespectfulall we wanted was some information to keep us calm.

Jonathan Scott

We're on track to be one of the better teams in the nation. We got to keep working at it. It has been instilled in us that complacency kills. We've got to make sure that we work to get better.

Aaron Cook

He has instilled this, 'This is who you are, stick with it, be stubborn with it' approach. The sinker was working great. As long as I don't try to do too much with it, it is always there.

Amber Riley

My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.

Rick Mitchell

My parents instilled in us that you need to give back to the community.

Chris Quinn

My family's always instilled that in me, just having integrity. There's been a lot of tough times throughout this year, throughout my career, but it's important to stick with it and keep battling.

Chris Eigeman

My first show was 'No Exit.' You couldn't find a more pretentious beginning, but it also instilled some sense of quality.

Nita Ambani

Sachin is the soul of Mumbai Indians, and I am sure he will guide Bhajji as he takes on the responsibility of captaining Mumbai Indians.

Sam Taylor-Wood

My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.

Isla Fisher

On Nicole Kidman: She's a mum in her thirties with slag's hair. Look at all that frizzy s**t! She thinks she's a girl.

Lauren Bell

I do not remember my mum at all,

Natalie Imbruglia

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

Kate Thompson

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

Jennifer Ellison

I want to be a young mum and if I didn't have to work I'd have them tomorrow. I'd like three!

Jane Asher

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

Bruce Dickinson

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

Yao Ming

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

Etel Adnan

We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

William Shakespeare

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

B. F. Skinner

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

Esai Morales

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

William Shakespeare

Highly fed and lowly taught.

Dan Hawkins

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

Leonard Cohen

I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever.

Christopher Gorham

I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.

Imelda May

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

Gillian Armstrong

Maybe not many women are going to film school.

Zoe Lister-Jones

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

Bella Abzug

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Bobbi Brown

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

Carrie Snow

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Bette Davis

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.