Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayelet Waldman

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

Ayn Rand

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Elizabeth Blackwell

The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

Barbara Johnson

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Adrienne Rich

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

David O. McKay

True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

B. J. Novak

I do not have very much office experience.

Bill Cosby

This happened to the people. The Constitution says of the people, by the people, for the people... but the people who got the office, got into office and forgot about the people.

Carl Sagan

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

Gerald Smith

The association had directors, officers and, by 1870, had been opened to stockholders.

Terry Shea

The assessor's office respectfully disagrees with some of the court's rulings.

Chan Gailey

I think I'm going to go back to the office and see the trainers,

Michael Procopio

He walked straight into the recruitment office and he said, 'You don't have to give me any of your speeches.' He told them he wanted to sign up, and he wanted to sign up for the infantry.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

Charles Spurgeon

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Benjamin Disraeli

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Elizabeth David

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Alessandro Nivola

With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.

William Shakespeare

Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

Dale Carnegie

How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.

Ambrose Bierce

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.