All Quotes

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.
‐‐ Desiree Rogers

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
‐‐ Theodore Parker

As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and creative ways to solve problems. You have to take some risks.
‐‐ John Rowland

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
‐‐ Cao Yu

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.
‐‐ Len Wiseman

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.
‐‐ Apollonius of Tyana

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
‐‐ Hugh Leonard

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.
‐‐ Lesli Linka Glatter

As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been practicing oboe five days a week since they were very young. The physicality of anything a character does is a tremendous gift.
‐‐ Lola Kirke

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.
‐‐ Matt Damon

As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business.
‐‐ Gabe Newell

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
‐‐ Anthony Holden

As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a part of the curriculum. I think that's critical for the people growing up in our school system.
‐‐ Bill Haslam

As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.
‐‐ Jarrett J. Krosoczka

As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

As someone who attended six different public schools across America, went to Harvard, and subsequently became a tutor in Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side, I've witnessed firsthand the differences in learning styles between public school educations and private.
‐‐ Eliot Schrefer

As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening years, I moved into the 1 percent.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.
‐‐ Mike Mills

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.
‐‐ Dean Heller

As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.
‐‐ Gwendoline Christie

As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.
‐‐ Teresa Heinz

As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
‐‐ Kate Jackson

As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of electioneering tactics.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.
‐‐ Ann Hood

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
‐‐ Candice Millard

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.
‐‐ Joseph Monninger

As someone who has owned a small business in the past, I understand how difficult it can be to get a loan.
‐‐ Tony Cardenas

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.
‐‐ Allen Boyd

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
‐‐ Jill Abramson

As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.
‐‐ Marlo Thomas

As someone who is both an ethnic minority and openly gay, I often talk about how simply being who I am has given me a double awareness of the vulnerability that some Americans may be facing.
‐‐ Mark Takano

As someone who is displaced - I left London almost fifteen years ago to make Connecticut my home - I am drawn to stories about people who don't belong, whether physically or emotionally, and who find their families of choice in their friends.
‐‐ Jane Green

As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
‐‐ Candy Crowley

As someone who loves being on the field with his teammates, it's hard to hear that you're not going to be the one playing.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler

As someone who loves football, I will continue to speak out frankly about FIFA's problems.
‐‐ Chung Mong-joon

As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world's largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment.
‐‐ Billy Parish

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
‐‐ Dan Rather

As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.
‐‐ Lily Rabe

As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
‐‐ Al Franken

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
‐‐ Stephen Fry

As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
‐‐ Kate Reardon

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!
‐‐ Shreya Ghoshal