Vencidas Quotes & Sayings

It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy. — William J. Clinton

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. — Thornton Wilder

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity. — Christine Baranski

I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic Verses is a blasphemous book. I did not consider the book as being a great read, but as an intellectual I read, I assess, and I respond. I make a difference between true freedom of expression to which we owe a response and provocation, which we ignore. — Tariq Ramadan

The rich live the same all over the world. — Christian Dior

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school. — Blake Mycoskie

the flesh with its passions and desires. — Anonymous

Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

John Boehner chose a huge gavel. I think somebody's compensating for his small government. — Stephen Colbert

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Give me violent revenge fantasies as a copying mechanism.
Flash.
Just give me my first oportunity.
Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk

Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future. — Joseph Beuys

The struggle being waged today, where there is any struggle being waged at all, is closer to the one that was addressed in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the court accepted segregated institutions for black people, stipulating only that they must be equal to those open to white people. The dual society, at least in public education, seems in general to be unquestioned. — Jonathan Kozol

With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person. — Henry Fielding

Downstream is always someone else's up. — Barbara Kingsolver