All Quotes

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
‐‐ Agnes Smedley

For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to play with and encouraged me to take care of her. And when the baby, a little boy they named Rahm, finally arrived, they encouraged me to help take care of him, too.
‐‐ Ezekiel Emanuel

For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.
‐‐ Charles E. Wilson

For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.
‐‐ Ann Cotton

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
‐‐ Zell Miller

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.
‐‐ Rupert Sheldrake

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.
‐‐ Azar Nafisi

For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001.
‐‐ David Rockefeller

For more than a century, states have sought to protect the integrity of the democratic process at the state and local level by regulating corporate spending in elections.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.
‐‐ Katharine Graham

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
‐‐ Mike Pence

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
‐‐ Barack Obama

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
‐‐ Felix Adler

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
‐‐ Mac Thornberry

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.
‐‐ Virgil Goode

For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them. In my case, it was never like that. It was just about working with the people that I want to work with, and telling the stories that I want to tell, you know?
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
‐‐ John Sununu

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
‐‐ Abigail Washburn

For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
‐‐ Billy Collins

For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of American life, with an enormous impact, for good and ill, on how we live, think, and feel.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time!
‐‐ Tinashe

For most athletes, there's a focus on your own fitness, but I have to rely on my horse, too. I've been very lucky so far, and it hasn't presented a problem, but you can never count on a competition going as planned until you're there and actually doing it.
‐‐ Charlotte Dujardin

For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
‐‐ Julian Fellowes

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
‐‐ Charley Pride

For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.
‐‐ Dave Heineman

For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies.
‐‐ Romesh Wadhwani

For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.
‐‐ Lisa Gansky

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
‐‐ Clifton Fadiman

For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible.
‐‐ Daniel Wu

For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others' expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It's only in very recent history that rulers have been willing to commit themselves to helping their citizens live happier lives.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.
‐‐ Jay S. Walker

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
‐‐ Gabriel Mann

For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.
‐‐ Jane Leavy

For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
‐‐ Scott Adams

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.
‐‐ Brian Selznick

For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.
‐‐ Mark Viduka

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
‐‐ Victoria Abril

For most of my films, I've had to go out and start shooting before I could get the rest of the funding. That was the case with 'Hoop Dreams,' 'Stevie' and 'The Interrupters:' We started them quietly out of Kartemquin Films, only really going to funders once we had something to show and a firm idea of what the film might be.
‐‐ Steve James

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
‐‐ Barney Frank

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.
‐‐ Shari Arison

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

For most of my life, I've been in a hurry.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that's running on principles that we don't even understand.
‐‐ Reggie Watts

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
‐‐ Nikki Giovanni