David Rolf Quotes

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

David Rolf

• Moral
• Income
• Inequality
• Principal
• Stagnation

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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

  

  Faith Prince
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Decision
  • Made
  • Radio

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Me

• We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Small
  • Down

• I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Dreamer
  • Rising
  • Pisces

• And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Easy

• Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Time
  • Father
  • Water

• I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn't even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Moon

• It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Peace
  • Horror
  • Saint

• Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Action
  • Kiss

• Has there ever been a revolution that produced something better than what it overthrew? The only thing people learn from being oppressed is how to oppress others!

  

  Kage Baker
  • People
  • Revolution

• We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree.

  

  Mark Pocan
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• One of my favorite writers is Chekhov. I love his attitude toward the world. Just accept things for what they are. Don't judge. Be moral as you tell your story, but have no moral at the end. Just look at it.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • World
  • Moral
  • Attitude

• Those who meekly obey laws and rules imposed from the outside-including religious laws-are not moral human beings. The fulfillment of an imposed law is morally neutral. The truly educated make their own wills serve the higher call of justice, empathy and reason.

  

  Chris Hedges
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Religious

• I’m southern born, and southern bred, and when I die, I’ll be southern dead.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Die

• I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

  

  Ba Jin
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Future

• Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

  

  David Rolf
  • Moral
  • Income
  • Inequality