Statement Quotes

• One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Question
  • Advantages
  • Elites

• A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Seeker
  • Discounting

• The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Silence
  • Humility
  • Vocation

• When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Woman
  • Feel

• That's an important statement to make, and I think that certainly has to get out there because I think it is still -- there is a lot of fear among seniors.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Important
  • Fear
  • Seniors

• Earlier today Martha Stewart issued a statement saying 'I am innocent and will fight to clear my name.' Yeah, Martha then said 'I look forward to the day when people stop thinking I am guilty and get back to thinking I am cold and arrogant.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• those misgivings were surely put to rest by the lengthy statement we have just heard.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Rest
  • Statement
  • Misgivings

• I think George Will is somebody that said recently that the Republicans will not lose, as a Republican, that the Republicans will not win the election. I think it was a terrible statement.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Think
  • Win
  • Election

• But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Universe
  • Quality
  • Christians

• Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me...

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Politics
  • Theatre
  • Statement

• When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Public
  • Honeymoon
  • Got Married

• Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Read
  • Statement
  • Ties

• A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Children
  • Solution
  • Targets

• We had a couple of good talks. That's the only statement I want to make.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Couple
  • Conversation

• If the minutes are in a similar tone to that of the FOMC statement, then the dollar should stay supported rather than gain significantly.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Money
  • Statement
  • Similar

• I prefer to be part of a positive statement. I'm not interested in the psyche of a serial killer. What I'm interested in is creating a situation in which people get some emotional exercise, which makes them feel like human beings and makes them understand that they are part of the human community with all its responsibilities.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Statement
  • Killer
  • Psyche

• To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Life
  • Music
  • Statement

• I warmly welcome the statement ... that the Kosovo Liberation Army has complied with its commitment to demilitarize.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Commitment
  • Welcome
  • Demilitarize

• If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • Cat
  • Tail
  • Halo

• An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.

  

  Barbara Brennan
  • Patient
  • Statement
  • Diagnosis

• My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Painted
  • My Work
  • Permissiom

• It makes a statement we're serious about becoming a player on the national level. I would have liked it to have been done two years ago, but that's OK. We can finally say we're going to have a groundbreaking ceremony. I'm so excited.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Player
  • Ceremony
  • Groundbreaking

• Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

  

  Will Durant
  • Statement
  • Swift

• When Zach said, "Im going to kill Dr. Steve." It wasn't the angered threat of a worried boy; it was the calm, cool statement of an operative trained to do exactly that. And that, I think, is why it scared me. But it wasn't as terrifying as the look in Bex's eyes when she said, "Not if I find him first.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Kill
  • Worried
  • Statement

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