Christine Gregoire Quotes
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
Quotes to Explore
-
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
-
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
-
Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
-
I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
-
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
-
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
-
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
-
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
-
Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
-
I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
-
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
-
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
-
I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
-
While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
-
My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
-
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
-
I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
-
I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
-
Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
-
Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."
-
I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What are people consuming?' and I take these things into effect.
-
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.
-
There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.
-
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
