Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

Shirley Chisholm

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• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Balance

• I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • People
  • High
  • Feel

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Wife
  • Dog
  • Foundation

• I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • Environment
  • Paris
  • Lived

• I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Enough
  • Lucky
  • Helmet

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Technology

• I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Architecture

• I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • History
  • Universe
  • Identity

• To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Art
  • May
  • Experience

• You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

  

  Arthur Miller

• About shocking. You know I feel comfortable in my skin. I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

  

  Britney Spears

• But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • History

• My wife says I'm much happier when I'm not a regular on a TV show.

  

  Alan Dale
  • Wife

• I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't play that music. I will lose my job.' Well, lose the job and create a new job. If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

  

  Patti Smith
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Job

• We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and lose.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza

• I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • God
  • Women
  • Heart

• The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Reality
  • Everyday

• Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Revolution
  • Rhetoric