Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Parsons

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Brett Lee

If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life

Aravind Adiga

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Jane Campion

The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.

Carson McCullers

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

Al Gore

All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

Jane Asher

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

bell hooks

It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Bram Fischer

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Bobby Fischer

I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

Bertrand Russell

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

D. H. Lawrence

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

Mason Cooley

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

Marsha Blackburn

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

Honore de Balzac

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation wants peace, stability, justice and equality in international relations,

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.