Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

bell hooks

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

Max Weber

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

Peter Cosgrove

Their legacy will indeed strengthen that ethos and foundations of that spirit.

Jane Campion

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Herbert Read

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Herbert Hoover

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Michael Foley

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

Michael Stipe

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

Wendy Kopp

All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

Feist

There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

Nathaniel Holt

We probably do everything together. We hang out with the same friends. We go pretty much everywhere together.

Tom Colicchio

Making ribs in Texas isn't that unusual a choice for 'Top Chef'. We played the stereotypes everywhere we go. It's not only in Texas. We do it in New York; we did it in San Francisco. Listen if we shoot it in Seattle you know we're going to be throwing salmon somewhere.

Tom Brokaw

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

Bethany Mota

I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.

Davis III

When I get up there, I say, 'This hole has always been good to me,' rather than going, 'It's hard to hit this green.' I'm thinking positive thoughts. When you have a place where you're comfortable, it makes it easier. I feel good everywhere on this course.

Kirk Cameron

Everywhere I go, everyone I talk with, everyone I think about - their salvation is what is on my mind. I love fellowship with Christians, but I can't become preoccupied with the pleasure of fellowship when I know that sinners are sinking into hell.

Steven Pinker

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

Gao Zhisheng

The police in different cities, including Beijing, are starting a mass hunt for hunger strikers.

Benjamin Franklin

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

Edwin Louis Cole

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

Bill Gates

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

David Sedaris

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

David Mitchell

Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.

Socrates

The best seasoning for food in hunger; for drink, thirst.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

Matthew Henry

They that die by famine die by inches.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Donnie Yen

A gesture, a smile, or just walking down the street is an expression.

Maria Rodriguez

You've got to go to the streets to get to the table.

Fernando Ferrer

You could go to any New Yorker on the street and they will tell you they are having an affordability crisis,

Elton John

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.

Blake Shelton

I'm not the kind of person who thrives in 'the scene.'

Don Yaeger

Powerful, quick and agile, Serena Williams thrives on winning.

Le Corbusier

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

Alan Cohen

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

Walter Benjamin

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

Walter Benjamin

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

Banksy

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

James Keller

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

Minna Antrim

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Dogen

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.