Ann Cotton Quotes
Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this desire for girls' education into reality, and showing the measurable benefits of girls' education for all of us.
Quotes to Explore
-
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
-
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
-
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
-
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
-
I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
-
A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
-
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
-
Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
-
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
-
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
-
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
-
This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
-
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
-
The 100m is never stressful.
-
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
-
You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
-
Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
-
I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
-
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
-
We executed and we came out with a victory.
-
As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.
-
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
-
I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.
-
Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this desire for girls' education into reality, and showing the measurable benefits of girls' education for all of us.
