Barbara Jordan Quotes
You need a core inside you-a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.
Quotes to Explore
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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During difficult times, it's best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
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He liked everything about the university except the students.
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Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.
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I think change is always scary but also always good.
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Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.
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A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.
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It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values that we hold.
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You need a core inside you-a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.
