Fiorello LaGuardia Quotes

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

Fiorello LaGuardia

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• Government
• Liberty
• Self-government

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • Want
  • Example
  • Tax

• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Will

• I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Great
  • You
  • Bond

• It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Dream
  • Thought
  • Leader

• I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Experience
  • College
  • Road

• This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Think
  • Man
  • Laugh

• First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Political
  • Never
  • Agenda

• India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • May
  • Problems
  • Place

• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
  • Architecture

• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Played

• Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Sometimes
  • Luck
  • Try

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• I believe we need to ensure there are no refugees placed in Arizona with connections to terrorist organizations.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Believe

• And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.

  

  David Bohm
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Write
  • Songwriter

• I'm learning to trust other people to do things. My time is limited, and I'd rather be spending it with my kids.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • People
  • Government
  • Liberty