Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes

the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.

Carrie Chapman Catt

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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
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• Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • She
  • Movie
  • Think

• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Self
  • Reputation
  • Ourselves

• The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Trying
  • Party
  • Independent

• My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Taxes
  • Tax

• I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Read
  • Just
  • Respond

• The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Money
  • Government
  • Between

• Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I play golf - badly.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Play Golf

• I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Time
  • Growing

• I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Great
  • Yourself
  • Fate

• When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Peace
  • Question

• Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Freedom

• People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.

  

  Eric Braeden

• I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Walking

• If we were starting from scratch, there's no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the economy the best and be the simplest to administer.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Question
  • Simple

• Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they’d be laughed out of the company.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men

• The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Men
  • Done
  • Future

• Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.

  

  Alex Tizon
  • Up
  • Men
  • War

• I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Done
  • Night

• the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Men
  • Reflection
  • Vote