496 Area Quotes & Sayings

It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places. — Charles Handy

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior? — Dan Gelber

Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa's impoverishment. — Kwame Nkrumah

Once a Bond fan, always a Bond fan. — Richard Kiel

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder. — Henry Miller

A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods. — Henrietta Swan Leavitt

We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical. — Cinco Paul

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion. — John Sterling

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay. — Richard Attenborough

I've never been compared to Bugs Bunny and that's amazing, thank you. — John Krasinski

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The newspaper Hilda gets delivered would call me evil. The one I buy on the corner would say it's more complicated than that. — Sam Lipsyte

Sometimes I realize halfway through a story, I'm like, 'Why would anyone care about this? It's uninteresting.' — Kyle Kinane

Act to make your vision a reality. — Debasish Mridha