Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Saul Bellow

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Robin Morgan

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

Simone Beauvoir

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Jonathan Sacks

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Ken Wilber

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

Terrence McNally

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Andrew Bernstein

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Jeff Gundy

I just spoke to him about him as a player,

Dick Jauron

I haven't even thought about it, and we haven't spoken about it.

Charley Casserly

I haven't spoken with him yet, but I will.

Johnny Weir

I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that.

Emily Dickinson

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

Mike Vogel

They're very quiet. You can tell that there's something that they're about to do. They have the track walks before the race. They go and do their thing, and not a word is spoken between any of them. They're just staring at the track.

Arne Glimcher

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Matthew Cooper

Before I spoke to Mr. Rove I didn't know about Wilson having a wife. And he was the one who suggested to me that she worked at the agency,

Stephen Hess

Besides, he's already spoken extensively about the hurricanes.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Wavy Gravy

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Johnny Christ

If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

Paul Lambert

It's not comfortable to have me standing up here,

Christian Backman

It's tough . . . he was standing up for me. It's too bad. We need him.

Etan Thomas

Not everyone is comfortable with standing up. But I know it does get appreciated.

Myles Munroe

You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out

Lea Michele

Confidence is what makes you stand out.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.