Esv Scripture Verse Quotes & Sayings

I'm like a point guard. Barack is about ideas and questions, and I don't have all the answers. He trusts me to pass the ball to others to give him points of view. — Mark Lippert

Don't lose yourself... inside yourself... — Mitch Albom

Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty. — Vladimir Lenin

A name made great is a name destroyed. He who does not increase his knowledge decreases it. — Hillel The Elder

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back. — Sheryl Sandberg

I put people before gods. I respect believers of all kinds and work to promote interfaith dialogue, but my whole life I've seen religion used as a weapon, and I'm putting all weapons down. — Zak Ebrahim

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads
favorite authors, particular themes
as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books. — Helen Simonson

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life. — Dave Pelzer

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research ... for ways of augmenting story-telling. — Malcolm Gladwell

I don't want to be mysterious. — Claire Denis

Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most devastating form. I am aware that, in some minds, this tends to be regarded as a delicate subject. Let me declare very simply that I do not share such a sentiment. There is nothing in the least delicate about the slaughter of innocents. We all subscribe to the lofty notions contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but, for some reason, become suddenly coy and selective when it comes to defending what is obviously the most elementary of these rights, which is the right to life. One of my all-time favourite lines comes from the black American poet Langston Hughes. It reads, simply, 'There is no lavender word for lynch'. — Wole Soyinka

You want everything for your kids that you didn't have, but that that very desire can pollute and corrupt the good, basic American pluckiness, resourcefulness and down-to-earthness that we like to pride ourselves with, and result in aspirations of wealth and high culture. — Todd Haynes

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable. — Al Sharpton

You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore. — Aisha Tyler

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life. — Neil MacGregor