I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.
~By Helen Reddy ~
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
~By James Mill ~
Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping.
~By Charlotte Church ~
Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier.
~By Terrence Howard ~
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
~By Samuel Adams ~
The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
~By Nancy Astor ~
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.
~By Branford Marsalis ~
I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.
~By Martin Fry ~
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.
~By Nat Friedman ~
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
~By Richard Whately ~
I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.
~By Daniel Johns ~
But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.
~By John Cornyn ~
I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.
~By George Andrew Olah ~
My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.
~By Robin Hayes ~
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.
~By Chris Bell ~
I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.
~By Graham Russell ~
And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
~By Ferdowsi ~
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
~By Sean Connery ~
The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.
~By Wilhelm Ostwald ~
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
~By Clarence Thomas ~
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.
~By Clint Walker ~
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.
~By Robin Morgan ~
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.
~By George Weinberg ~
Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.
~By Stephen Harper ~
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
~By Andy Warhol ~
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
~By Bo Jackson ~
My tendency is to be very experimental.
~By Sean Lennon ~
I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
~By Walter Kohn ~
Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment.
~By Marilu Henner ~
So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.
~By John Sexton ~
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
~By Bill Forsyth ~
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
~By William Wordsworth ~
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
~By Edmund Burke ~
The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.
~By Virgil Goode ~
South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.
~By Ryan Sypek ~
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero.
~By Ramman Kenoun ~
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
~By Alan Cohen ~
Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.
~By Moira Kelly ~
I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.
~By James Inhofe ~
If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.
~By Rob Walton ~
I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.
~By Erno Rubik ~
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
~By Diane Arbus ~
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
~By William Falconer ~
The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
~By Taslima Nasrin ~
I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
~By Martin Luther ~
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
~By Rebecca West ~
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
~By Dorothy L. Sayers ~
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
~By Virginia Satir ~
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
~By Henry Clay ~
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
~By Larry Miller ~
I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
~By Richard Serra ~
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
~By Jack Scalia ~
It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
~By Maria Monk ~
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
~By George Takei ~
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
~By Bob Beauprez ~
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
~By John C. Hawkes ~
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
~By Aristotle ~
What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land.
~By Mike Simpson ~
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.
~By David Bohm ~
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
~By George Crumb ~
Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.
~By Ric Ocasek ~
The First Amendment means everything to me.
~By Julian Bond ~
The Declaration is a magnificent document.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
~By James J. Gibson ~
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
~By James Larkin ~
Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
~By Richard H. Davis ~
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
~By Knute Rockne ~
It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
~By Ovid ~
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
~By Philip K. Dick ~
I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.
~By Jared Diamond ~
We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
~By Josefa Iloilo ~
|