David Batstone Quotes

When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.

David Batstone

• Hope
• Slave
• Arrest

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • View

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Story
  • Example
  • Nest

• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Effort

• The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • History
  • Broken
  • Unity

• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • You
  • Passion
  • Communication

• I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Change
  • Husband

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Government
  • Environment

• I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Never
  • Sense

• Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Development
  • Economic
  • Islam

• If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Huge

• At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Light
  • End
  • Questions

• From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is

  

  W. H. Davies

• OK, number one. There, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching... I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK? But, when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me. It's a problem for me, I can't control it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.

  

  Brian Jacques
  • Children
  • Imagination

• All beautiful things must end. Otherwise they are not beautiful.

  

  Zan Perrion
  • Beautiful

• Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Hope
  • Failure
  • Relation

• When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the rest of us were.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
  • Band
  • Rest

• Natural history is not only interesting to the individual, it ought to become a NATIONAL CONCERN, since it is a NATIONAL GOOD,—of this, agriculture, as it is the most important occupation, affords the most striking proof.

  

  Charles Willson Peale
  • Important
  • History
  • Concern

• When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.

  

  David Batstone
  • Hope
  • Slave
  • Arrest