Joycelyn Elders Quotes

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

Joycelyn Elders

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• I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Always
  • Destiny

• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• I'm a huge believer in power of women on the web.

  

  Aileen Lee
  • Women
  • Power

• I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Great
  • Winning
  • Pleasure

• We didn't do enough offensively to get it done, and we don't usually say that.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Done
  • Enough
  • Offensively

• And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

  

  Don McLean
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

• It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Law

• The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • People
  • Blessed
  • Loyal

• In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Christian
  • Jews
  • Poets

• I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Style

• There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.

  

  Sabrina Salerno
  • Hope
  • Emotional
  • Break

• Certainly, the sensory deprivation afforded by the remote, silent and totally dark chambers, such as the Diverticule of the Felines in Lascaux and the Horse’s Tail in Altamira, induces altered states of consciousness.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Certainly
  • Deprivation
  • Remote

• A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Strenght
  • Freeman
  • Hindered

• So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Freedom
  • Realized
  • Intolerance

• One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Purpose
  • Explanation
  • Scientists

• Most everything I’ve done I’ve copied from somebody else.

  

  Alice Walton
  • Done
  • Everything
  • Copied

• The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • World
  • Peaceful
  • Farmers

• When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Fighting
  • Winning
  • Break

• You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • History
  • Failure
  • Frustration

• Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Soldiers
  • God Is
  • Realization

• Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

  

  Joycelyn Elders
  • Break
  • Abstinence
  • Condoms