Hopeson Adoye Quotes & Sayings

To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights, to discern and provide against invasions of them, to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority, between burdens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society. — George Washington

Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight. — David Hackett Fischer

I began to understand that dancing well had everything to do with believing you could. Like those dreams of flying- dipping gracefully through the air in your weightless body- if in your sleep, you stopped to think about it for more than half a second, you'd crash like a sack of dead ducks onto the roof of a church. — Laura Kasischke

It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art. — Geena Davis

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest. — Claude Chabrol

I've always wanted my offering to have broad appeal and work for a diverse range of women with different lifestyles. — Roksanda Ilincic

When I was 9, we moved to Osseo, Wis., where we owned a couple of hundred acres. My father was well respected in town. — Diane Hendricks

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time. — Fred Hoyle

Some days I feel like I'm only the fire hydrant to Westminster dog show. — Bob Beckel

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world. — Don McCullin

You knew me. You KNOW me. I can't imagine my life without you, without someone who knows me that well. — Deb Caletti

I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits. — Bo Jackson