Kaidanov Fencing Quotes & Sayings

For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What is needed is a rights-based approach to development. Ensuring essential political, economic and social entitlements and human dignity for all people provides the rationale for policy. These are not a luxury affordable only to the rich and powerful but an indispensable component of national development efforts. — Kofi Annan

Don't be ridiculous. Only one of the most condescending phrases in the English language ... and — Christine Pope

Haven't you ever been so consumed with someone that you would do anything for them only to have them wreck you completely? — Ella Dominguez

O honorable strumpet — William Shakespeare

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us. — Pope Francis

In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are — Guy Finley

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell. — E.F. Benson

No matter what you look at, if you look at it closely enough, you are involved in the entire universe. — Michael Faraday

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. — Madeleine Albright

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963] — John F. Kennedy

Success is going from one failure to the next without losing enthusiasm — Winston S. Churchill

One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst. — Kara Hayward

Lukewarm people gauge their morality or 'goodness' by comparing themselves to the secular world. They feel satisfied that while they aren't as hard-core for Jesus as so-and-so, they are nowhere as horrible as the guy down the street. — Francis Chan

Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay. — Bob Dylan