It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
~By Alice Hamilton ~
I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that.
~By Shelley Long ~
I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.
~By Michael Landon ~
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 ~
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
~By Johnny Depp ~
Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.
~By Oliver Stone ~
Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
~By James Longstreet ~
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
~By Tracey Emin ~
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
~By Stockwell Day ~
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
~By Henry Miller ~
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
~By Barney Frank ~
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
~By Annie Lennox ~
But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.
~By John W. Snow ~
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.
~By William Law ~
FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.
~By Stuart Symington ~
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
~By Frederik Pohl ~
Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.
~By Matthew Hayden ~
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
~By John Ruskin ~
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
~By Ezra Pound ~
In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?
~By Scott Brown ~
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
~By John Gay ~
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
~By Bill Frist ~
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.
~By Robert Casey ~
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women.
~By Lee Grant ~
We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.
~By Anna Lindh ~
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
~By Brigid Brophy ~
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
~By Dean Inge ~
Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.
~By Diane Watson ~
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
~By Rebecca West ~
I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.
~By Sean Astin ~
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 ~
The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.
~By Rose E. Bird ~
I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.
~By Roy Ayers ~
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
~By Allen Boyd ~
Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'
~By Demi Moore ~
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
~By Ernestine Rose ~
People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.
~By Daniel Yergin ~
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
Whether you are from Minnesota, Wisconsin or any other Northern tier state, you are not going to like the reimbursement formula. The problem we face is that we wouldn't have that formula if a majority of the states didn't like it, and they have the majority of the votes.
~By David Obey ~
I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered.
~By Katie Price ~
Gentlemen prefer blondes.
~By Anita Loos ~
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
~By George McGovern ~
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
~By George Edward Moore ~
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
~By Erica Jong ~
I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.
~By Damon Hill ~
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
~By Robert Bork ~
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government.
~By David Lloyd ~
I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.
~By James Cronin ~
I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest.
~By Jenny McCarthy ~
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
~By George Mason ~
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
~By Meryl Streep ~
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.
~By John Lithgow ~
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.
~By Robert McChesney ~
There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
~By Tommy Franks ~
I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.
~By James Larkin ~
Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
~By Andy Rooney ~
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
~By Adam Smith ~
We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.
~By David Cross ~
To attract men, I wear a perfume called "New Car Interior."
~By Rita Rudner ~
We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter.
~By Isaac Yeffet ~
All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
~By Charles Fillmore ~
It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
~By Katharine Butler Hathaway ~
The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.
~By Bill Toomey ~
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda.
~By Sanaa Lathan ~
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
The harmonica is a great instrument.
~By Toots Thielemans ~
It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.
~By Helen Reddy ~
Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.
~By Peter Ackroyd ~
Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.
~By Method Man ~
There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.
~By Ernest Istook ~
I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.
~By Doyle Brunson ~
I'd had people say, "You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again". But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.
~By Matt Damon ~
I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France.
~By Edward Grey ~
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