George William Foote Quotes

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

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• There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • You

• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • War
  • Worst
  • Objectives

• The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Organization
  • Economic

• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Love
  • Universe

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Enough
  • Happen

• To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Me
  • Human
  • Passions

• We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Crisis
  • Refugee

• We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Strong
  • Path
  • Matter

• In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Society

• You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Me
  • Might
  • Entrepreneur

• Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Same
  • Machines
  • Threads

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Motivational
  • Keep Going

• I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Car

• The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Heart
  • Open
  • Page

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Environment
  • Player
  • Consequences

• What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Mistake

• Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, 'Yeah, 'Bridesmaids' opened the door to make more movies about women.' I mean, did it? I don't know; where are they?

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Women
  • Door
  • Fly

• The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Done
  • Story
  • Migration

• If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

  

  George Carlin
  • True
  • Alone
  • Universe

• This is a mistake. eBay bad and robotic, Craig's List human and good. And now on the way to selling out.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Mistake

• It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

  

  George William Foote
  • Women
  • Bible
  • Contributed