Mattinson Endowment Quotes & Sayings

But they can explain a great deal. The circumstances into which people are born and the range of opportunities to which they are exposed shape both the choices available to them and the process by which they make those choices even if they, ultimately, still make the choice. I have yet to meet anyone who denies that individuals have free will. But I also have yet to meet anyone who makes a convincing argument that circumstances don't shape what you can do with that will. — Gary Younge

What I can, I do. — Alexi Wakefield

to both sides before trying the handle; it moved — Ken McClure

My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread. — Paul McCartney

Why should anyone buy anything from you if you don't believe in your product? There's a reason why confident salespeople are successful. — Timi Nadela

Change comes from confrontation. You have to be confronted or confront yourself. — Bryant McGill

Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain. — Tim Bray

Slavery, that was a kind of alchemy for such White folk, or so they reckoned. They calculated a way of turning each bead of a Black man's sweat into gold and each moan of despair from a Black woman's throat into the sweet clear sound of a silver coin ringing on the money-changer's table. There was buying and selling of souls in that place. Yet there was nary a one of them who understood the whole price they paid for owning other folk. — Orson Scott Card

When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long. — Josey Wales

Let your devotional life be the beacon that guides you through the tough terrain you will face. — Ravi Zacharias

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. — Susan Griffin

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me. — Danny Aiello

Voice work is usually not that big of a time commitment. You can go in for a couple of days or a couple of months, here and there, and just go in and play. I like being able to do that. You don't have that luxury on film sets or television sets. — James Marsden