Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

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• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Poor
  • Investment
  • Data

• I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • World
  • Want
  • Problems

• I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

  

  Aarti Mann
  • Career
  • Brother
  • Daughter

• By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Life
  • Done
  • May

• Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • People
  • War
  • Help

• Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Black
  • Party
  • Security

• They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Awareness

• We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Meaningful

• Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Power
  • Soul

• Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • American
  • History

• Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Moving
  • Taken

• Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Moments

• Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Faith
  • Prove
  • Believing

• Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Persons
  • Screws

• The capacity for judgment, to make plans, to choose one’s good, is what we share with other persons. It is what makes us persons.

  

  Charles Fried
  • Persons
  • Choose
  • Judgment

• I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Lyrics

• That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
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