Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Winslet

As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, "I am so proud of my body." So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.

Julie Andrews

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

James Levine

So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

Joan Kirner

There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Joan Didion

I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Jim Yong Kim

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Emma Watson

As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

Emma Watson

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

Emma Watson

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

Emma Watson

People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word.

Emma Watson

Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. You're a feminist. You're a feminist. That's it.

Heidi Klum

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

John F. Kerry

We can't change minds without knowing what's in them.

John F. Kerry

We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.

John Elkington

The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them and learn from them, the transition will proceed faster and in more resource-efficient ways. If, on the other hand, we prefer the short-term comfort of burying our failures, or of blaming scapegoats, the transition will be significantly slowed, or could even be derailed completely.

Joan Rivers

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Frank A. Clark

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

George Clooney

The only failure is not to try.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Louis Armstrong

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Lori Greiner

If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.

Malcolm Arnold

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Malala Yousafzai

In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.

Malala Yousafzai

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

Malala Yousafzai

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Magic Johnson

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

Magic Johnson

I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.

Magic Johnson

I'm a big believer in dreaming. If you don't dream it, you can't become it.

Magic Johnson

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

Magic Johnson

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

Magic Johnson

My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

Magic Johnson

For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

Maimonides

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.