Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Jane Austen

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]

Jane Austen

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Jane Austen

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Jane Austen

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Jane Austen

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Bram Fischer

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

Cher

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

Charlotte Lennox

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Bryant H. McGill

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

Elie Wiesel

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Brandon Marshall

I understand that you're supposed to protect a fellow officer, but when injustice is happening, it's on them to speak up as well.

Bayard Rustin

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

Edmund Burke

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Aristotle

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

Ed Miliband

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Dolores Huerta

As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.

Adam Hochschild

The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.

Aaron Swartz

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

Tom Brokaw

We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.

Paul Dergarabedian

I think we're being blinded by the blockbusters. Sports movies have been pretty consistent. It's not a hotbed of $100 million films, but it's a solid performing genre.

Dale Maharidge

I still love Ken, ... He really means well. He put all his shots in the golf course project. It kind of blinded him.

Bhagavad Gita

Though they, blinded by greed, do not see evil in the destruction of the family, or sin in being treacherous to friends.

Nancy Pelosi

Republicans are blinded by their culture of cronyism and corruption, ... They're crumbling, arrogantly protecting their power.

Donna Favors

When we open otherwise blinded eyes,,,we then open an otherwise closed-mind

Peter Beard

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

Wendy Murphy

We are so awestruck (with DNA) that we don't take a moment to step back and say, 'Gosh, does it really matter in this case?' There is no such thing as defense at any cost. We need not be blinded by the idea that DNA is conclusive on the question of guilt or innocence.