Desacatos 59 Quotes & Sayings

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world. — Betty Friedan

Sir, the year growing ancient,
Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth
Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season
Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors,
Which some call nature's bastards. — William Shakespeare

I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture to culture till I feel - till I am - nothing. As it happens, I like it that way. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Time you spend on meaningless pursuits is time you take away from meaningful ones. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Lasting leadership comes from a personal transformation, not a personal agenda. — Barry Banther

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. — Peter Jennings

It really tests you as a person as far as whether you can handle failure. — Jason Bay

He who's not busy being born is busy dying." Tony — Bryan Burrough

I was little the first time I heard the term "ghost town"; I fell immediately in love. — John Darnielle

There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason. — Ayn Rand

The past is a pebble in my shoe. — Poe

The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can't be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew. — Akira Kurosawa

Turn your head. No, the other way. Out the window.' I turn to the steamed-over plate glass, the shadowed buildings across the street. 'What, like this?' 'Now move your eyes and look at me. Just your eyes. Tilting up a bit. Yes.' He breathes out. 'Just like that. that, Miss Lily Dane, of only the best sorts of places, that is why I couldn't go back to sleep last night. — Beatriz Williams