All Quotes

During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.
‐‐ Hiram Rhodes Revels

During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
‐‐ Xi Jinping

During the Clinton administration, America's image was that of a strong, confident and kind world leader.
‐‐ Mike Medavoy

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We simply counted up their stuff and either bought more of the same or upgraded our technology.
‐‐ Thomas P.M. Barnett

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
‐‐ Iqbal Quadir

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
‐‐ Bob Graham

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
‐‐ John le Carre

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

During the course of any normal day, I usually pay more attention to assembling a grocery list than I do to reading movie reviews, although there are a more than a few film critics who bring huge insight to their work.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
‐‐ Padma Lakshmi

During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
‐‐ Bart Starr

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.
‐‐ Marie Curie

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.
‐‐ Patrick Stewart

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
‐‐ J. G. Stedman

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler

During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

During the day, I don't read too much of the blog traffic, but then at night, I read transcripts of all of the network packages, and then I watch the wires and some of the political blogs.
‐‐ Nicolle Wallace

During the day I don't wear much makeup.
‐‐ Denise Richards

During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
‐‐ Lykke Li

During the day I force myself to at least eat some salads rather than rubbish, and a steak in the evening. In fact, I eat to basically satisfy my hunger. I hardly have the time to appreciate a meal, and I'm everything, but a gourmet.
‐‐ Milla Jovovich

During the day I pull on jeans and ballet flats; but I do love getting dressed up, too.
‐‐ Leigh Lezark

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.
‐‐ Gail Tsukiyama

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
‐‐ Michael N. Castle

During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

During the decathlon, I always think only of the next event and my personal record.
‐‐ Roman Sebrle

During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
‐‐ Betty White

During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
‐‐ George Kaiser

During the development of the whole-body CT scanner, it became clear that the availability of an accurate cross-sectional picture of the body, the CT 'slice,' would have an important effect on the precision and implementation of radiotherapy treatment planning.
‐‐ Godfrey Hounsfield

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts.
‐‐ Vivek Wadhwa

During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.
‐‐ Mark Hoppus

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
‐‐ Jean Piaget

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.
‐‐ Lawrence R. Klein

During the early days of HootSuite, when social media was still seen as a fad, I made the decision to treat our funding as if it were my personal bank account. That's not to say I blew it on fast cars and fancy dinners. Exactly the opposite.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.
‐‐ Philip Gibbs

During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs, a proprietary solution is almost always the right solution - because it allows you to knit all the pieces together in an optimized way.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
‐‐ Donatella Versace

During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
‐‐ Ronnie Wood

During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
‐‐ Eddie Bernice Johnson

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
‐‐ Anatoly Chubais

During the election of Washington's successor, it became apparent that the country was sharply divided and that the dissatisfaction with Federalist policies was deep and fervent.
‐‐ Charles A. Beard