Famous Quotes & Sayings

Medgar Evers

Our only hope is to control the vote.

Constance Baker Motley

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

Daisy Bates

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

Scott Nearing

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

David Korten

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.

Richard Grimes

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

John Gates

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

Noam Chomsky

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Wes Boyd

The senate and congressional campaign committees keep getting more and more narrow in their targeting - there is little work done on national message.

Josh Taylor

We also would like to express our gratitude to the police and to the private citizens who helped to capture his attacker, and we are confident that justice will be served.

Cameron Crowe

The personal stuff for me is the best, ... And this one felt a little raw emotionally. I wanted to capture some stuff, to see if I could get it right. The way it feels to lose a loved one and find a reason to celebrate, oddly enough, as a result of learning who you are.

Leslie Cockburn

After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.

Nick Woodman

GoPro is ideal for pro-active capture, meaning, 'Hey, we're going to do something fun, and we're going to capture a video of it.'

Horst Faas

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

Todd Howard

We wanted to work with voice talent that really captured the emotion and drama of the game's story. Quite honestly, we wrote the parts with these individual actors in mind. It's an honor to have them lend their talents to the project.

Phil Forest

We're spending more time on our computers. Even though television viewing is up, there is still a percentage that they're losing. If they put programs on the Internet, they can capture more of the audience. That's one of the key factors driving the networks.

Katie Aselton

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

David Henderson

What they will do is capture all kinds of other people in their net and reduce our privacy in the process, ... This is government we are talking about and government tends to use whatever it has.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Alan Watts

Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.

Alan Watts

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

Alan Greenspan

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

Alan Greenspan

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

Alan Beck

Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

Alan Blinder

In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

Chris Chocola

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.

Chris Colfer

I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!