Emily Blackwell Quotes

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

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• I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Social
  • Corruption
  • Activism

• My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Fear
  • Social

• I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Boy
  • Social
  • Novel

• I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Social
  • Social Life

• I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Alone

• I represent an emerging group of leaders within the Jewish community who are conservatives; not just fiscal conservatives, but social conservatives as well.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Community
  • Social
  • Group

• I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Ancient
  • Finding
  • Died

• I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
  • Country
  • American

• I don't do social media.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Media
  • Social
  • Social Media

• I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • See
  • Security
  • Social

• Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Security
  • Social
  • Debt

• I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Change
  • Social
  • Medicine

• Man has been adjudged a social animal.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Social

• In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Long
  • Certain
  • Break

• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Media

• Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Work
  • Political
  • Social

• If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Free
  • Strong
  • Marriage

• And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.

  

  Alexandru C. Cuza
  • Social
  • Theory
  • Explaining

• If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

  

  Leonard Bacon
  • Government
  • Slavery
  • Social

• As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Way
  • Social
  • Actresses

• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• The military authorities of NATO are contemplating all the possibilities so that an embargo can be guaranteed, not only by NATO-friendly countries but also for other things.

  

  Javier Solana
  • NATO
  • Embargo
  • Military Authorities

• Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

  

  Emily Blackwell
  • Social
  • Civilizations
  • Intercourse