Ayanna Pressley Quotes

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

Ayanna Pressley

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Looking
  • Jeans
  • Potato

• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Culture
  • Literature

• Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Child

• I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Changes

• You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Money
  • Art

• An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Actor
  • Cannot
  • Censor

• I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Listening

• Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • May
  • Evil
  • Heaven

• Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Kind
  • Personality
  • Cold

• I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Trade
  • Fair
  • Balanced

• If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Change
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light

• It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • May
  • Brain

• How pleasant to sit on the beach,On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,With ocean galore within reach,And nothing at all to be done!.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Ocean

• Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov
  • Military

• I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have a different perspective. It's not just an advertisement with one single message that has some authority, political or not.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Art
  • Remain
  • Complex

• During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Money
  • War
  • Political

• Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.

  

  William M. Evarts
  • People
  • Reason
  • Progress

• I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • People
  • Country

• Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

  

  Ayanna Pressley
  • Progress
  • Challenges
  • Approach