Gelene Weiner Quotes & Sayings

Tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it. — Anna Julia Cooper

Daybreak," he said, looking out at it. "I've always thought it was funny that dawn should be called daybreak. This is when the day is made: it's the beginning. It's the best part: you've got all the potential of the day to come, and you haven't wasted it yet. When it gets dark, that should be daybreak. When the day is broken. When it turns into nighttime, that's when it all starts to go wrong. — Erin Kelly

When mortals discuss about the eternity,
conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion. — Toba Beta

I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time, or something
and the money wasn't even that great. But I needed it, and ... they come back on television, those movies ... to haunt you. And it's a nightmare! — Lauren Bacall

Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities ... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast. — Jane Byrne

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being? — Unita Blackwell

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.' — Troy Polamalu

I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think. — Thomas A. Edison

To come devotedly into the depths of a subject, your respect for it increasing in every step and your whole heart weakening apart with shame upon yourself in your dealing with it : To know at length better and better and at length into the bottom of your soul your unworthiness of it : Let me hope in any case that it is something to have begun to learn. — James Agee

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor. — Abraham Cowley

Let us think of ourselves not as 'yes' and 'no' Scots but simply as Scots, and let us be a nation, united again. — Gordon Brown