All Quotes

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
‐‐ Stephen Douglas

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.
‐‐ Douglas Wilder

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.
‐‐ John Ridley

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
‐‐ Alexander Herzen

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
‐‐ Charles de Secondat

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.
‐‐ John Prendergast

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is contrary to the whole tenor of Christianity; and a system which lowers man as an intellectual and responsible being is no less morally than politically wrong.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
‐‐ Mary Wollstonecraft

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.
‐‐ John Ridley

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
‐‐ Alfred Marshall

Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
‐‐ Frederick Douglass

Slayer fans are unforgiving. Early on in the career, if something changes, it's accepted. But 30 years down the road, in my opinion, they would rather see us do a three-piece than even try to replace Jeff, in a sense.
‐‐ Tom Araya

Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.
‐‐ Tom Araya

Sleater-Kinney becomes bigger than the three of us. It pulls us along, in a way.
‐‐ Janet Weiss

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
‐‐ Edmund Spenser

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
‐‐ Edwin Arnold

Sleep has been provided by nature to do the body's healing work, and it takes seven or eight hours for this process to happen. Commit to getting at least seven to eight hours of good quality sleep every night to keep your body and hormones in balance.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers

Sleep has never been a priority in my life.
‐‐ Ryan Kwanten

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
‐‐ Comte de Lautreamont

Sleep is a waste of time.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
‐‐ James Stephens

Sleep is for squares.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Sleep is getting to be like gold.
‐‐ Chet Faker

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
‐‐ Heinrich Heine

Sleep is huge. That's your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it's such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.
‐‐ Bryce Harper

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
‐‐ Heinrich Heine

Sleep is my best friend when we're shooting 'Game of Thrones' because there are very long days and intense scenes.
‐‐ Maisie Williams

Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone loves getting into a bed made up with beautiful linen. I love sewing, I love fabrics, and I love sleeping.
‐‐ Twiggy

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
‐‐ Thomas Dekker

Sleep is the best meditation.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial the inner chatter down.
‐‐ Kris Carr

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
‐‐ Arthur Schopenhauer

Sleep is the real beauty secret, but I don't get enough of that.
‐‐ Chelsea Leyland

Sleep is very precious to me. I love to sleep.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
‐‐ Ben Stein

Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
‐‐ Ben Stein

Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.
‐‐ James Hetfield

Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.
‐‐ Chris LeDoux

Sleeping here is harder here in space than on a bed because the sleep position here is the same position throughout the day. You don't ever get that sense of gratifying relaxation here that you do on Earth after a long day at work.
‐‐ Scott Kelly

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
‐‐ Usher

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.
‐‐ Kelly Ripa

Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach