Quotes & Sayings About Preventing Child Labour

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

You look like a diabetic strip club owner. — Jim Norton

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience. — Annie Proulx

Many years ago, I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realized, 'I am killing him?all for the passing pleasure it brings me.' And something inside me clicked. I realized as I watched him fight for breath, that his life was as important to him as mine is to me. — Paul McCartney

There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible. — Al Madrigal

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do. — Shia Labeouf

His pain was his most precious and secret possession, and Six held on to it as fiercely as a jewel robbed from a corpse. — Ayana Mathis

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you. — Don Cornelius

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free. — Zadie Smith

In neo-classical economic theory, it is claimed without evidence that people are basically self-seeking, that they want above all the satisfaction of their material desires: what economists call "maximising utility". The ultimate objective of mankind is economic growth, and that is maximized only through raw, and lightly regulated, competition. If the rewards of this system are spread unevenly, that is a necessary price. Others on the planet are to be regarded as either customers, competitors or factors of production. Effects upon the planet itself are mere "externalities" to the model, with no reckoning of the cost - at least for now. Nowhere in this analysis appears factors such as human cooperation, love, trust, compassion or hatred, curiosity or beauty. Nowhere appears the concept of meaning. What cannot be measured is ignored. But the trouble is that once our basic needs for shelter and food have been met, these factors may be the most important of all. — Carne Ross

Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that. — Dorothy Allison

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering? — Andrea Corr

Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself — Oprah Winfrey