W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.W. E. B. Du Bois
Quotes to Explore
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
Adam Braun -
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips -
You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
Padma Lakshmi -
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris Murdoch -
There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
Ted Sarandos -
If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
Dana Brunetti
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
Gary Ross -
The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
Patrick Wilson -
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
Han Fei -
I read everything and anything. I love books.
Gail Porter -
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
Dan Brown
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
Aaron Rodgers -
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. Kinsella -
The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
Aaron Allston -
People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
Samina Baig -
The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
Iain Duncan Smith -
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
Nelson Mandela -
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.
Joseph Brodsky -
For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
Kate Walsh -
The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'
J. C. Watts -
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.
W. E. B. Du Bois