Funny Girl Empowering Quotes & Sayings

The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our daily lives and not create the world that everyone must live in. What we desire arranges the genetic code in all of our major crops and livestock. We cannot avoid participating in the creation, and it is in agriculture, far and away our largest and most basic artifact, that human culture and the creation totally interpenetrate. — Wes Jackson

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. — Mary Oliver

The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution
because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody's got a shot. — Barack Obama

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. — Elton John

Most good decisions will involve these steps: Figure out your goal or goals. Evaluate the importance of each goal. Array the options. Evaluate how likely each of the options is to meet your goals. Pick the winning option. Later use the consequences of your choice to modify your goals, the importance you assign them, and the way you evaluate future possibilities. — Barry Schwartz

I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to the wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place at the wrong time For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme On the wrong day of the wrong week I used the wrong method with the wrong technique Wrong — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are — Suzanne Collins

When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy.' I never understood that argument at all. I just didn't agree with the premise. — Maureen Dowd

And thus they built a stage on which to showcase their conjuring - and also to refine it. — Maggie Stiefvater