Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Cain

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it...

C. L. R. James

First of all, Bolshevism represents...

Chris Abani

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

Chris Abani

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.

Wole Soyinka

Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

Emogene Middleton

This store that we're standing in front of, The Gap, was really Kress five and ten cent store and it was the hub of downtown for African Americans. The only restroom that was available to us was in the basement of this store.

Barbara Stocking

Today's announcement will make a real difference to millions of poor people. On the ground it will mean thousands of people get treatment for the first time in their lives. Zambia will need continued support to recruit new staff but this is a massive leap in the right direction. We now need other African countries to follow suit.

Win Butler

The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.

Clare Boothe Luce

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

Robert A. Heinlein

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Rupert Sheldrake

When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.

Sri Chinmoy

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

Tacitus

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

Philip James Bailey

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.

Michel Foucault

[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.

Michael Jordan

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

Oscar Wilde

The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

Sathya Baba

This is bad; this is good - can such judgments be ever made about anything in God's creation when all are manifestations of His will?

Steve Stanley

At the same time, notwithstanding the lack of job creation, the economy is generally strong.

David Barton

You've GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

Steven Erikson

Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.

Greg Aiello

We don't spend any time looking at their figures. We think it's irrelevant and it's purely a publicity gimmick. There are more women and minorities working in the NFL than ever, and diversity in our workplace is an important league priority.

Meher Baba

...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.

Pythagoras

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

Lord Byron

I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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

Mahatma Gandhi

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

P. J. Harvey

But we are thrilled to be where we are now. Our real estate people liked the proximity to the mall.

Jeff Thredgold

Money will go back from real estate to stocks.

Paul Tate

If the industry would give it time, these people would just fall out anyway, ... They would have to do such a large volume (of listings) to make any money, and real estate just doesn't work that way.

Jim Amormino

She was involved in nonexistent or fraudulent real estate transactions.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Bruce Babbitt

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

A. E. Housman

A neck God made for other use / Than strangling in a string.

Tony Soprano

Even if God is dead, you're going to kiss his ass

Brian Greene

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Jerry Saltz

Scandal is only human.

Nico Tortorella

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

Mary McCarthy

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.

Aldo Leopold

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...

Andrew Young

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

David Chang

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

Daniel Webster

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

Winona LaDuke

What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?

Winona LaDuke

The only compensation for land is land,

Wendell Berry

Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land

Wendell Berry

But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use.

Wendell Berry

What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?

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.

Bobby Scott

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

Dennis Potter

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Eckhart Tolle

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

Nat Friedman

We've really taken the product a long way in the past year,

Joe Gibbs

We wish the past two years could have been smoother.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Claude Levi-Strauss

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Ernst Mayr

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.