The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
~By Guillaume Apollinaire ~
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.
~By Henry Hampton ~
For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.
~By Kathy Valentine ~
Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.
~By John Boehner ~
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
~By Ernie Fletcher ~
But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.
~By Avi Arad ~
I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
~By J. J. Johnson ~
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
~By Earl Warren ~
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.
~By Richard Lugar ~
We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.
~By Bobby Orr ~
Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.
~By Mathieu Kerekou ~
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.
~By Dick Spring ~
My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.
~By Clifton Paul Fadiman ~
I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.
~By David R. Ellis ~
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
~By Val Kilmer ~
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.
~By Jill Scott ~
What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.
~By Douglass North ~
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.
~By Jamal Lewis ~
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.
~By Greg Louganis ~
I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
~By Maxine Waters ~
Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.
~By John Hales ~
The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.
~By Ed Markey ~
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
~By George Eliot ~
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
~By Jimmy Smits ~
I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine.
~By Nia Long ~
I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
~By Bernard de Mandeville ~
Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
~By Barack Obama ~
The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
~By Roger Daltrey ~
I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~
Nobody does good to men with impunity.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.
~By Chris Matthews ~
The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
~By Dorothy Height ~
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
~By Walter Crane ~
We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
~By Clarence Stein ~
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.
~By Don Young ~
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
~By David Geffen ~
It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.
~By John Abizaid ~
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
~By Wade Boggs ~
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
~By Billie Jean King ~
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
~By Robert Menendez ~
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.
~By James S. Coleman ~
With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity.
~By Tina Yothers ~
It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.
~By Hans Kung ~
The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.
~By Mark Shields ~
There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.
~By Hugh Dancy ~
We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.
~By Ron D. Burton ~
Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.
~By Robert Shea ~
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
~By Christopher Reeve ~
The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community.
~By Mark Lloyd ~
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
~By Dan Quayle ~
For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
~By Nathan Deal ~
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
~By John Fischer ~
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
~By Elvis Costello ~
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
~By Herbert Simon ~
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
~By Sun Tzu ~
It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.
~By Tony Oliva ~
I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.
~By Charlize Theron ~
Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.
~By Sean William Scott ~
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
~By John J. Sweeney ~
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
~By James M. Barrie ~
All war aims for impunity.
~By Michael Ignatieff ~
Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.
~By Paul Bremer ~
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be - and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can't cut and run.
~By Al D'Amato ~
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
~By Dorothy Day ~
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him.
~By Stephen Breyer ~
I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
~By Ed Smith ~
We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.
~By Buzz Osborne ~
I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
~By Nanci Griffith ~
I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
~By Eliot Spitzer ~
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.
~By Joschka Fischer ~
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
~By Voltaire ~
I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
~By Steve Nash ~
Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?
~By Robert Casey ~
I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.
~By Joe Baca ~
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.
~By Mel Carnahan ~
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.
~By Jon Porter ~
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