Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dinaw Mengestu

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Durado Brooks

The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference.

Aasif Mandvi

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

Toyin Odutola

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

Todrick Hall

Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now.

Erik King

Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

Erik Hersman

The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Eric Holder

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.

Kandyse McClure

The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.

Jackie Chan

When I look back to when I was young, when parents said no they meant no, no matter how much you cried and how many times tears would run out, it would be useless. We knew that losing our temper and crying would not get us what we wanted so we wouldn't dare to lose our temper or cry easily.

Woody Harrelson

When I let up from the weed, and the drinking too, I cried every day. And I liked that. I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!

Laura Diaz

She cried five times that day. We started counting.

Kim Kappler

She hated being in a cage. She cried and cried, so she went home with a volunteer.

Tonya David

She has the strength of a trooper. She has never complained once. She has never cried about being in a wheelchair, not once, not once.

Lindsey Kildow

She was incredible, she spent the whole night with me until 10 o'clock. She cried with me. She said she knew I can do it, that I have to be positive and get back out there as soon as I can. She knew as soon as I got back out there, I'd have a medal. Just not today, I guess.

Michael Boyle

She sat there and shook and cried and kept saying, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you,'

Arthur Conan Doyle

By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?" Because I looked for it.

Kevin Hart

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.

Phil Williams

We are talking dozens and dozens of sex offenders - mainly from just four states that report the employers names.

Ehud Barak

maybe there will be a need for a few dozens of foreign observers.

John Montgomery

Numerous people were interviewed and dozens of leads were investigated,

Jen Bluestein

Freddy Ferrer is proud to have the support of literally dozens of Latino leaders.

Florence Green

I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.

Mark Pudlow

We thought that it was interesting that the governor enumerated dozens of programs that he was here marketing money for and nowhere in there was there anything for salaries.

Richard Ben-Veniste

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.

John Buckingham

When the fund began, there were dozens of technology stocks on our recommended list because of the so-called 'Asia Contagion,'

Bonnie Tyler

I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.

Charlene Johnson

When I look back at their lives, at the hardships they endured and the sacrifices they made for generations they had never even met, I don?t see how we can do less.

Joe Johnston

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

Rosa Parks

the real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passenger. We had endured that kind of treatment for too long.

John Boehner

We as a Nation have endured heartbreak, tragedy, and occasional setbacks, but we are resolute in taking the fight to the enemy and winning.

Natasha Trethewey

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

Ian McCafferty

There are glimmers of hope on the horizon for manufacturers who have endured a long-lasting downturn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of your hurts you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived, / But what torments of grief you endured / From evils which never arrived!

Chris Klug

I was more nervous to meet them than I was for my Olympic race. I mean, how do you thank somebody for saving your life at the same time they just endured a horrible family tragedy?

Keith Bishop

Do you want to live over the next four years what we have endured for the last three weeks?

Niger Innis

The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.

Daniel Gillies

We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.

Charles Spurgeon

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

Michael Leunig

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.

Hub Hubbell

No horses this time. I'm going to talk about the hardships on the trail.

Nizar Hamdoon

I don't think it will be sufficient but it will be significant in alleviating some of the hardships of the Iraqi people.

Barbara Castle

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

Pamela Walsh

He will support the waiver if it includes a hardship provision.

Abdu'l Baha

Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.

Bram Fischer

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

Barbara Kingsolver

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

Ashley Montagu

Hatred is love frustrated.

Berthold Auerbach

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

Juvenal

An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.

Camille Paglia

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

C. J. Mahaney

Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.

Bertolt Brecht

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning first, before we talk about anything else, ... We need to win some games. That's what I talk about. ... We need to openly talk about winning before we talk about anything else.

Angela Knight

This reflects openly what has been talked about quietly for some time.

Seanan McGuire

When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very openly on my blog, on Twitter, that I was writing this book, and it wasn't until after it was sold that I said 'Mira Grant' wrote this book. And the reason there was really purely marketing-based.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

Beryl Bainbridge

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

Karen Simmons

We don't have any children, so it was a pretty traumatic thing for us.

Pam Saylor

But they said he was going to be okay. At the same time, we were told he was going to the trauma unit.

Joe Haldeman

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

Trevor Moore

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

Bob Carr

I think it would be so traumatic ... they would never do it again,

James Frey

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

Eve Ensler

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

Mary Daubert

When the first rescuers arrived, he was still conscious. But then he went unconscious and they were unable to revive him.

Mitt Romney

Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.

William Faulkner

Some things you must always be unable to bear.

Taylor Caldwell

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Charlotte Bronte

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Charles Dudley Warner

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Charles Dudley Warner

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.