Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

Earl Warren

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

David Twohy

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

Carlos Fuentes

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Charlie Gonzalez

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Cary Fowler

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

Cary Fowler

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

Cary Fowler

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

Carter G. Woodson

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Edward Kennedy

What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

Edna Ferber

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Bill Kurtis

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

Jacques Chirac

This is a France that wins and is, for once, united in victory, ... symbol of the diversity and of the unity of the country.

Ian Bogost

For a long time, we've talked in the game industry about gender diversity as the one problem on the radar, but the racial split is worse.

It's not that the kids listening don't speak English; it's an expression of the diversity we have in Marshalltown. It's healthy for them to see that model from adults. And kids really get a kick out of language anyway. During the elementary years, that's when they're playing with language and learning the power it has.

Paul Clark

There's a lot of diversity in here. It's just really kind of cool.

It's a great honor for us to be recognized by the prestigious LATINA Style for two consecutive years. We feel that we have a very robust diversity plan and we're gratified and encouraged when the experts tell us we're on the right track.

David Puttnam

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

A new nuclear unit would also mean greater diversity of fuel, and that means more stable electric rates for our 2.7 million electricity customers.

So students would be meeting with faculty in the evening, talking about issues of race, diversity and ethnicity.

Thicket by thicket and wetland by wetland, we were losing the Greater Golden Horseshoe's remaining wilderness and diversity of life. The greenbelt is stopping the loss of natural features and the species they host.

That's why you see a lot of diversity of winners here. It's letting guys have a lot of chances.

Abraham Foxman

All along, Louis Farrakhan and his minions have suggested that this march will be different, that it will embrace diversity in a show of solidarity and strength. Now we see what he means. Already the sideshows surrounding this event are being stacked with noted racists and anti-Semites on the extremist fringe. One can only wonder what this portends for the main event itself.

Bashar al-Assad

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

Bertrand Russell

It's coexistence or no existence.

Benjamin Bratt

On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.

Cameron Crowe

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

Cesar Chavez

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Alan Dean Foster

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

Diane Ackerman

Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

We're absolutely. We have waited way too long to diversity our tax base. We are way to reliant on residential property taxes. It is not sustainable over the long run.