Groundswell Quotes & Sayings

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip. — Dan Quayle

Alzheimer's is literally killing us, and the only way to fight this 'crime' is through a groundswell of people who continue to raise their voices and funds to ensure it gets the attention it deserves. — Tess Gerritsen

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out. — Tori Amos

Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you've got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word. — Ryan Holmes

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer — Florence Nightingale

The scope of the transgender empire may be reaching its peak, as transcriticism is increasing at a fast pace both within activist feminism and from wives and regretters. There is an increasing groundswell of criticism of the concept and practice of transgenderism from a newly invigorated radical feminist movement. Moreover, the idea of transgenderism has become so vague and general that the category is in danger of being exploded. — Sheila Jeffreys

Whether we like it or not, Islam has entered its third phase of conquest, towards the 'Universal Caliphate'. The first two phases happened in the Seventh to the Eleventh centuries, as well as in the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth centuries. It is a question of a groundswell that the governments of Islamic countries, which are pro-Western out of temporary calculation, cannot disguise for long. Islam's principal weapon is its demographic vigour, in the face of Western countries that are experiencing depopulation. This confrontation will cover the planet and will usually take the form of civil war, with episodes of classic war. — Guillaume Faye

A groundswell of silence moved between us.
Trouble on the surface and even deeper currents beneath. — Lisa Kleypas

Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name. — Erwin McManus

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan. — George Canning

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil. — Sherwood Boehlert

It is a proud moment when you can define a problem and make a commitment and begin to see a groundswell of activity towards addressing what has the potential to change the life trajectory of millions of kids. — Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

The groundswell of outrage over the invasion of Iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of American ideals. The subtext of the dissent was: 'This is not who we are.' But not if you were standing where I was. It was hard to see the look in that palace tour guide's eyes when she talked about the American flag flying over the palace and not realize that ever since 1898, from time to time, this is exactly who we are. — Sarah Vowell

Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods. — Grant Morrison

We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power. — Stefano Gabbana

The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way. — Phil Jackson

Each of us by our daily acts of peace and our commitment to building a better world can inspire others and help create a groundswell for peace too powerful to be turned aside. — David Krieger

He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him. — Wynton Marsalis

Find your eternity in each moment — Henry David Thoreau

If your master is surly, from getting up early
(And tempers are short in the morning),
An inopportune joke is enough to provoke
Him to give you, at once, a month's warning. — W.S. Gilbert

We need a broad-based coalition that is way beyond the bounds of Christianity to be able to help people to understand that there is a groundswell of support for the marriage amendment and for opposition to same-sex marriages. — Erwin W. Lutzer

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment. — Paul Wellstone

Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty? — Juan Williams

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves. — Ani DiFranco

We are all but instruments of God. — Stonewall Jackson

If a public groundswell occurs without altering people's attitudes or shifting the cultural dialogue at least slightly, then it's not a movement - it's just a fad. — Scott Goodson

It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all. — Angela Ahrendts

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel. — Art Alexakis