All Quotes

Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.
‐‐ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.
‐‐ Mike Quigley

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand

Empowering women means trusting them.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.
‐‐ Anthony Carmona

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.
‐‐ Annie Besant

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
‐‐ Norman Vincent Peale

Empty political space will be filled by extremists unless the United States and its allies build strong local forces that can suppress terrorist groups and warlords both. When the U.S. creates such local forces, it must be persistent. If it withdraws from these efforts, as America did in Iraq in 2011, it invites mayhem.
‐‐ David Ignatius

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
‐‐ Lawrence M. Krauss

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.
‐‐ Kathleen Troia McFarland

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
‐‐ Mao Zedong

Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.
‐‐ John Kline

Enacting elements of the Affordable Care Act isn't backtracking on core principles, but rather understanding that new ways to help make health care affordable builds stronger businesses and saves struggling hospitals. And that is a very attractive offer.
‐‐ Ronnie Musgrove

Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.
‐‐ Ryoji Noyori

'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place.
‐‐ Alethea Kontis

Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
‐‐ Mary Douglas

Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

'Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

'Encores!' is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.
‐‐ Kate Baldwin

Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.
‐‐ Patrick Modiano

Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.
‐‐ Arthur Lydiard

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.
‐‐ Michael Madsen

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.
‐‐ James Mirrlees

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.
‐‐ Jeffrey Donovan

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel

Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?
‐‐ Joel Osteen

Encouraging children to live healthy lifestyles is something I take very seriously.
‐‐ Mo Williams

Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.
‐‐ Patrick Stewart

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
‐‐ Tom Udall

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

Encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.
‐‐ James Comey

Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.
‐‐ James Gleick

End of the sixties, Keith Blazey interested me to work on GdAlO3, an antiferromagnet on which he had done optic experiments. This started a fruitful cooperation on magnetic phase diagrams, which eventually brought me into the field of critical phenomena.
‐‐ Heinrich Rohrer

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
‐‐ Karen Thompson Walker

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.
‐‐ Daphne Zuniga

Endangered species are our friends.
‐‐ Yao Ming

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
‐‐ Gavin Hood

'Ender's Game' is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out.
‐‐ Nonso Anozie

'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in advance, you forget the element that gives the play life - the audience.
‐‐ Simon McBurney