All Quotes

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
‐‐ Hjalmar Branting

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
‐‐ Arnold J. Toynbee

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.
‐‐ John Hanning Speke

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.
‐‐ Ming-Na Wen

The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize - to be awarded for sending a robotic spacecraft to this nearby world that can roam at least 500 meters, and send back data such as a photo.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.
‐‐ Mwai Kibaki

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.
‐‐ Enzo Ferrari

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.
‐‐ Mahendra Singh Dhoni

The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
‐‐ Byron Howard

The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging this and framing its ambitions and interests accordingly. Instead of claiming the right to continuing primacy in east Asia, for example, it should seek to share that primacy with China.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as a launching ground for U.S. troops entering Iraq in 2003.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.
‐‐ Shiv Khera

The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable search and seizure, began in earnest under President George W. Bush.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

The errors in media polling rarely benefit a Republican.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life's work.
‐‐ Ahmet Ertegun

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
‐‐ Raoul Vaneigem

The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you to confront the realities of our world.
‐‐ Ezra Miller

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
‐‐ Margaret Fuller

The ESPN complex is a 255-acre playland, as beautiful and perfect as the Magic Kingdom itself down the road - except it's sports!
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
‐‐ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
‐‐ Chuck Klosterman

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.
‐‐ Chuck Klosterman

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
‐‐ Tony Hillerman

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
‐‐ Vidal Sassoon

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
‐‐ John Adams

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
‐‐ Mark Steyn

The essence of a man is found in his faults.
‐‐ Francis Picabia

The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
‐‐ Gary Zukav

The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?'
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
‐‐ Gary Gygax

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
‐‐ Maxwell Anderson

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
‐‐ I. M. Pei

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
‐‐ George Orwell

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
‐‐ Charles Sanders Peirce

The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
‐‐ Jack Welch