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

• 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

• For to me, this word Art, in its largest sense, signifies those who take pleasure in their work... Artist-carpenters who adjust with joy dovetails and mortises; artist-masons who handle lovingly their trowels; artist-cab drivers, proud of treating their horses humanely-what an ideal state of society that would be.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Society

• La pobreza ajena me basta para sentirme pobre; la mía no me basta.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Work
  • Silence

• I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

  

  Karen Black
  • Week
  • Dead
  • Worked

• I certainly had my God-can-you-just-take-me-now-I've-just-had-it-I'm-checking-out-let-me-off-the-train-I'm-done kind of thing. But, you know, I would never actually do it. I just can't imagine what it would take to do that.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • God
  • Done

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

  

  Wes Moore
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Youngsters