Sargent Shriver Quotes

What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.

Sargent Shriver

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• I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • More
  • Would

• Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Great
  • Look
  • New

• Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Shape
  • Hold
  • Our

• Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Great
  • Space

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Special

• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Air
  • Take
  • Sides

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.

  

  Zach Braff
  • World
  • Job
  • Day

• Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Weak
  • Empty
  • Tongue

• I believe children's blessings are very powerful.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Powerful

• Neglect of appearance becomes men.

  

  Ovid
  • Men
  • Appearance
  • Neglect

• I'm sort of a slob.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Sort
  • Slob

• I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sister

• The Ramans do everything in threes.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke

• All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

  

  Alexis Carrel
  • Great
  • Men
  • Intuition

• Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back - Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!Fill all the air with hungry wails - 'Reward us, ere we think or write! Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails To sate the swinish appetite!'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Air

• He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Horse

• I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Women
  • Trying

• This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influencers of the hip-hop culture, the black culture. We are the way out, you feel what I'm sayin'? As far as who we look to and where we get stuff from - hip-hop culture is influencing the world, really, but especially the black communities.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • World
  • Black
  • Culture

• I say this to everybody: 'Watters World' makes you laugh, and then 'Watters World' makes you cry, because it is shocking, and even I myself am still shocked at some of the answers when I go out.

  

  Jesse Watters
  • World

• The direction is clear: We are headed toward a separation from the Palestinians. We are headed toward the determination of a permanent border for the state of Israel. We will protect Jerusalem's unity. We will hold onto the main settlement blocs. But the borders we have in mind are not those Israel has today.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Mind
  • Today
  • Determination

• Sufficiently entranced, she will pass the day somewhere else, in a world that understands her unelaborate hopes and grants to the lonely soul of the loveless, graceful peace.

  

  Steve Kilbey The Church
  • World
  • Soul
  • Peace

• What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • World
  • Today
  • Past