Alice Paul Quotes

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

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• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Art
  • Power

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Kids
  • College
  • Accept

• I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Learning

• Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Secure
  • Threatened
  • Herself

• Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Quality
  • Used
  • Decade

• Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Example
  • Leave
  • Medical

• After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

  

  Halle Berry
  • You
  • Right
  • Secrets

• You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • You
  • How

• I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Up
  • Work
  • Friends

• My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Parents
  • Born
  • Say

• If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Purpose

• Stated bluntly, the Aztlan Strategy entails the end of the United States as a sovereign, self-sufficient, independent republic, the passing away of the American nation. They are coming to conquer us.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • American
  • Independent

• The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Age
  • Law

• Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust.The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Long
  • Song
  • Honor

• All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Famous

• A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done

• We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act … Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Wish
  • Universe

• The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Poetry
  • Witty

• When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy them, but now they call this free will. At least the Greeks were being honest.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • God
  • Free

• I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.

  

  Jim Varney
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Work
  • Love
  • Invigorating

• Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

  

  Alice Paul