Quotes 1181 till 1200 of 1499.
-
We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.
-
We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
― Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.
-
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
-
We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.
Source: Europe's Response to Mediterranean Crisis is 'Lagging Far Behind.' (2015) -
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
-
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
-
We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.
-
We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
-
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
-
We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.
Source: Dreamcatcher (2001) 33 -
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
-
We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.
-
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
-
We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
-
We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
-
We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
-
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
-
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
-
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
All well-brought-up famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 60)
