Quotes 621 till 640 of 984.
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Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
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Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.
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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
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Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
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Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
Source: Faceboek (2014) -
Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
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Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
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Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
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Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
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Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
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Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
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