Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Carrie Chapman Catt

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• Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • World
  • Art
  • Politics

• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Think Big

• I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Think

• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Door

• My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Father
  • Faith

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Constitution

• This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Home
  • Together
  • Earth

• If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Singing
  • Nails

• Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Leadership
  • Doing
  • Class

• Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Tired
  • Uncertainty

• I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Support
  • Myself

• I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Violence

• I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Story
  • Fruit
  • Apple

• So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Done
  • Why
  • Road

• I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Smart
  • Dumb
  • Complain

• Never paint except with the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow and their derivatives.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Red
  • Blue

• I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • House
  • Keep

• Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.

  

  EMA
  • People
  • Obscurity
  • Expanding

• I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.

  

  Ashley Scott
  • Time

• Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Why
  • Experience

• I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

  

  John Engler
  • Job

• To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Women
  • Future
  • Distance