Wes Moore Quotes

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

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• I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Good
  • Marriage
  • Study

• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Up
  • Find

• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

  

  Ovid
  • Death
  • Bitter
  • Less

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Children
  • Man

• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• I am a reserved guy and need somebody to pep me up every day, Upsi does that job perfectly. She is very vivacious and outspoken, so we blend very well. We both love travelling, and we have a thing for adventure. We love being outdoors and like to ride our own boat rather than being rowed by someone else.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Guy
  • Adventure
  • Travelling

• OkCupid has users from 18 to 80 on the site. And we get to observe all of their actions. We get to watch how they use the site, how they interact with other people.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Actions
  • Watch

• India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Bird

• In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • She
  • Woman

• Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Looking
  • Tragedy

• The mind is just another muscle.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mind
  • Just
  • Another

• I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Chief
  • Behave
  • Commander

• I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Great
  • Places
  • Modeling

• So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.

  

  Ice T
  • Mean
  • Stage
  • Seriously

• There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • She

• The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Money
  • Opportunity
  • Stop

• When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Problem
  • Driving
  • Desert

• I liked the idea of being the kind of woman who'd go to the Gobi desert pregnant.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • Desert

• There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

  

  Moliere
  • Praise
  • Bear
  • Pocket

• The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

  

  Wes Moore
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Youngsters