Amy Richards Quotes

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

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• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Teach
  • Something
  • Excellent

• I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Me
  • Never
  • Guess

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Society

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Happy
  • Wanted
  • Made

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Great
  • Society

• Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Great
  • Business

• 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

• The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Power
  • Honesty
  • Informed

• Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Support
  • Trump
  • Will

• In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Women
  • Favorite
  • Little

• I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Reading
  • Inspiration
  • Human

• All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • God
  • Children

• So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Stop
  • Excuses

• A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Death
  • Lawyer
  • Wedding

• Fortunately I'm Latin, and I'm born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It's in the DNA. I have that going for me, but I've never been considered one of the world's greatest dancers.

  

  Adam Rodriguez
  • World
  • Latin

• I grew up, and my body was not like a Spanish player. I was tall. I had a powerful game; my arms were long, so I'm like, 'No, you can't play like Spanish players.'

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Up
  • Long
  • Game

• In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Up
  • Hope

• Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

  

  Amy Richards
  • World
  • Decisions
  • Majority