Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zadie Smith

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

We are looking for a better result than last time and hoping for at least two gold medals. But it is equally important to get experience for our young swimmers.

Paula Creamer

I love to win. But probably equal to that - I love doing what I do.

We had only 22 kills and 20 (hitting) errors, so that's not helpful when you're trying to play a team of equal caliber. They did a good job of mixing things up. They kept us on our toes to where we had to read things, and that's the hardest thing in volleyball.

We want to make sure people understand that this does not equal getting rid of all their insulin shots.

Roxane Gay

Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.

Dennis Thompson

Truancy is an equal opportunity offense. It's equal exactly with males and females. The demographics are pretty much the demographics of the district, so it hasn't targeted one ethnic group or one gender group,

Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.

Ludwig von Mises

An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are supreme and are served by the elite of the most talented men.

We aren't opposed to interconnection, but it should be under equal conditions. We are governed by specific rules that Nextel wouldn't have.

We had equal opportunity and we didn't come away with the points.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Pierre Omidyar

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.

David Souter

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

Tom Williams

We are equally pleased because of his strong South Wales roots.

Don Kardong

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

Cherie Blair

I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.

Illinois Jacquet

When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

who sought to take a leadership role in terms of tolerance, equality and fairness.

I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.

Stella Young

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

Paul Campbell

Fair and equal treatment is going to be the way things are, ... Nothing illegal will be tolerated.

Sharad Pawar

Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the size of the holdings.

Bill Cosby

I think 'I Spy,' still when you look at it, speaks volumes in terms of propaganda for equality. It's just magnificent.

Barack Obama

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

We seek a peaceful relation with the United States, a cooperative relation, an equal relation.

Isaac Newton

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

Seamus Heaney

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

FKA twigs

I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

Wen Jiabao

We should respect each other and keep consultations on an equal footing,

Brian Kilmeade

Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America.

Danny Meyer

One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.