Statement Quotes

• The person who is defined by integrity understands that everything they do is a statement about who they are as a person.

  

  Bishop Noel Jones
  • Person
  • Integrity
  • Statement

• There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Opinions
  • Crimes
  • Axiom

• It's funny that and the same statement Barack Obama made when he's talking about Republicans and the Iranians, he's talking to Republicans through the television. He said, if any of you are watching this, you need to think about who you're hurting.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Television
  • Republicans
  • Barack Obama

• Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

  

  Bob Gill
  • Design
  • Statement

• Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as an educated person. You are either learning or you are not. In today's world, it is vitally important that you see the truth in Eric Hoffer's statement. The win or loss, which is waiting in the wings for every person, is enormous. You get to choose which you will experience.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Learning

• Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photographer
  • Concept
  • Emphasis

• There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Marriage
  • Brave
  • Human being

• I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Years
  • Damage
  • Statement

• Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Teacher
  • Belief
  • Tradition

• Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

  

  Barry Long
  • Truth
  • Statement

• Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Nature
  • Statement
  • Ring

• I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Real
  • Fashion
  • High School

• I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Conviction
  • Statement
  • Photographs

• Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Political
  • Abstract
  • Statement

• The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.

  

  Elvin Jones
  • Mood
  • Role
  • Jazz

• The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track. The life we are living and have known to this point is comfortable and easy. Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life. Our old belief system drags us back into the familiar. It is hard to overcome and we often experience small setbacks. This is the time to go back and look at your goals. Read your goal statement repeatedly and remind yourself of what you want and why.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Goals
  • New York
  • Habits

• Comedian makes the statement that just isn't true.

  

  Brad Williams
  • True
  • Comedian
  • Statement

• Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Progress

• Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

  

  Rick Kaplan
  • Statement
  • Almost
  • Wearing

• Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Political
  • Artist
  • Activism

• Your clothes should always make a statement.

  

  Eric Jacobson
  • Clothes
  • Statement

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