Frederick Douglass Quotes

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Frederick Douglass

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• All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Nice

• Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Thanks
  • Countries
  • Prophet

• We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Accept

• If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Think
  • Death
  • Day

• That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Will
  • Economic
  • Policy

• A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • May
  • Man
  • Tomorrow

• If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • War
  • Want
  • Face

• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Opportunity
  • Negative
  • Ridiculous

• Well, I can't figure out God.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • Well
  • Out

• If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Support
  • Woman

• I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Play
  • Cooking

• I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Doing

• On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Same
  • Show
  • Development

• America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • America
  • Rock

• Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Point
  • Instrument

• Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?... Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?... There is such a one.... Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Believe
  • Death

• I was nobody to make a pass to. I was very thin like a boy and I was very un-sexy.

  

  Luise Rainer
  • Boy
  • Sexy

• My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

  

  Nolan Gerard Funk
  • Actor
  • Situations
  • Comfort Zone

• Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Different
  • Quality

• I think the whole movement of #MeToo is not just calling out the sexual harassers, which is really important, but also crying out that we want equal pay, equal representation, equal opportunities, and that we want to see more female directors and photographers.

  

  Jamie Chung
  • Important
  • Crying

• When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think that this is the reason that this alienation has allowed us to see and regard land mostly as a resource. So we have created a problem for ourselves from the word "go," for land is not a resource any more than humans are resources.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Responsible

• I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

  

  Frederick Douglass