All Quotes

I have spent all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social justice and human rights activist, and now as President of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the margins of society.
‐‐ Joyce Banda

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.
‐‐ Jeremy Jackson

I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.
‐‐ Jane Green

I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?
‐‐ Anita Shreve

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

I have spent more than a decade trying to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people on earth, and they've taught me countless lessons.
‐‐ Howard Graham Buffett

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
‐‐ John Locke

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.
‐‐ Lemn Sissay

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
‐‐ Karen Finerman

I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
‐‐ Kate Brown

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.
‐‐ Michael Heisley

I have spent my entire life living in a zoo, which is pretty crazy. Not many kids get to say that, and it took me until I was about three years old to realize that we didn't just come to the zoo every day, that we actually lived here.
‐‐ Bindi Irwin

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
‐‐ Gallagher

I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.
‐‐ Max Burns

I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.
‐‐ Bev Perdue

I have spent my whole life educating myself.
‐‐ Penelope Wilton

I have spent my whole life trying to prove that women can get into politics. I'd now say to them, 'For God's sake don't do it - you'll get slaughtered.'
‐‐ Margaret Moran

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.
‐‐ Jerry Reed

I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.
‐‐ Amy Grant

I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being held hostage by a regime. I accept this, as Pakistan has traditional elements who find it hard to reconcile with a man whose wife works and who other men salute perforce of her office.
‐‐ Asif Ali Zardari

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.
‐‐ Monica Lewinsky

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
‐‐ Christiane Amanpour

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.
‐‐ Michael K. Simpson

I have spent time in Mongolia, in China.
‐‐ John Fusco

I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.
‐‐ Charles Saatchi

I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.
‐‐ Poppy Montgomery

I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.
‐‐ Andrew Lansley

I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

I have spoken about deficits, and I think deficits are important because they address broad economic and financial stability. We need to talk about that.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers' problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.
‐‐ Narendra Modi

I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
‐‐ Jack LaLanne

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
‐‐ David Antin

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.
‐‐ Jack Kent Cooke

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.
‐‐ Sergei Bubka

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.
‐‐ Carolyn Murphy

I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.
‐‐ Sonequa Martin-Green

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
‐‐ Brian Wilson