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Warren G. Harding7 quotes
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. — Warren G. Harding · 1920If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America. — Warren G. Harding · 1921America, our America, the America builded on the foundation laid by the inspired fathers, can be a party to no permanent military alliance. It can enter into no political commitments, nor assume any economic obligations which will subject our decisions to any other than our own authority. — Warren G. Harding · 1921There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty. — Warren G. Harding · 1921There is a luring fallacy in the theory of banished barriers of trade, but preserved American standards require our higher production costs to be reflected in our tariffs on imports. — Warren G. Harding · 1921With the nation-wide induction of womanhood into our political life, we may count upon her intuitions, her refinements, her intelligence, and her influence to exalt the social order. We count upon her exercise of the full privileges and the performance of the duties of citizenship to speed the attainment of the highest state. — Warren G. Harding · 1921All 7 quotes →Gloria Steinem6 quotes
Imagine we are linked not ranked. — Gloria Steinem · 2021Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the solution. — Gloria Steinem · 1994Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry. — Gloria Steinem · 1982Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke; that's their natural and first weapon. — Gloria Steinem · 1972Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality. — Gloria Steinem · 1978Words mean something different depending on the person who says them, right? — Gloria Steinem · 2009Toni Morrison6 quotes
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. — Toni Morrison · 1987It takes a village to raise a child. — Toni Morrison · 1984She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. — Toni Morrison · 1987There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind-wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place. — Toni Morrison · 1987I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write. — Toni Morrison · 1981There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. — Toni Morrison · 2015Benjamin Harrison4 quotes
The privileges of American citizenship are so great and its duties so grave that we may well insist upon a good knowledge of every person applying for citizenship and a good knowledge by him of our institutions. We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal limitations and duties, they would have less cause to complain of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference with their operations. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889God has placed upon our head a diadem and has laid at our feet power and wealth beyond definition or calculation. But we must not forget that we take these gifts upon the condition that justice and mercy shall hold the reins of power and that the upward avenues of hope shall be free to all the people. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889A community where law is the rule of conduct and where courts, not mobs, execute its penalties is the only attractive field for business investments and honest labor. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889Thomas Edison4 quotes
The horseless vehicle is the coming wonder. — Thomas Edison · 1895There is no substitute for hard work. — Thomas Edison · 1932Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison · 1932For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use. — Thomas Edison · 1917William Tecumseh Sherman4 quotes
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. — William Tecumseh Sherman · 1864I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected. — William Tecumseh Sherman · 1884We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. — William Tecumseh Sherman · 1864War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. — William Tecumseh Sherman · 1864Bill Watterson3 quotes
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. — Bill Watterson · 1989If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. — Bill Watterson · 1992There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. — Bill Watterson · 1988Clarence Darrow3 quotes
There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court. — Clarence Darrow · 1936I do not believe there is any sort of distinction between the real moral conditions of the people in and out of jail. One is just as good as the other.... I do not believe that people are in jail because they deserve to be. They are in jail simply because they cannot avoid it on account of circumstances which are entirely beyond their control and for which they are in no way responsible. — Clarence Darrow · 1902I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all agnosticism means. — Clarence Darrow · 1925James A. Garfield3 quotes
Under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States. — James A. Garfield · 1881If in other lands it be high treason to compass the death of the king, it shall be counted no less a crime here to strangle our sovereign power and stifle its voice. — James A. Garfield · 1881By the experience of commercial nations in all ages it has been found that gold and silver afford the only safe foundation for a monetary system. — James A. Garfield · 1881Tecumseh3 quotes
Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? — Tecumseh · 1810These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners. The Great Spirit above has appointed this place for us, on which to light our fires, and here we will remain. As to boundaries, the Great Spirit knows no boundaries, nor will his red children acknowledge any. — Tecumseh · 1810Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun. — Tecumseh · 1799Frank McKinney Hubbard2 quotes
It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts. — Frank McKinney Hubbard · 1913It's no disgrace t'be poor, but it might as well be. — Frank McKinney Hubbard · 1911Mary Oliver2 quotes
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver · 2006When it's over I don't want to wonder
If I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. — Mary Oliver · 1992Orville Wright2 quotes
Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest 57 seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas. — Orville Wright · 1903If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. — Orville Wright · 1908Solomon Northup2 quotes
My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom. — Solomon Northup · 2013I don't want to survive. I want to live. — Solomon Northup · 2013William Howard Taft2 quotes
The negroes are now Americans. Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only country and their only flag. They have shown themselves anxious to live for it and to die for it. — William Howard Taft · 1909The thirteenth amendment secured them freedom; the fourteenth amendment due process of law, protection of property, and the pursuit of happiness; and the fifteenth amendment attempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to vote because he was a negro. The thirteenth and fourteenth amendments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they are intended. While the fifteenth amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed. — William Howard Taft · 1909Austin Kleon1 quote
Steal old stuff. — Austin Kleon · 2017Bob Hope1 quote
Television. That's where movies go when they die. — Bob Hope · 1953Charles Dederich1 quote
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. — Charles Dederich · 1958Charles E. Wilson1 quote
For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. — Charles E. Wilson · 1953Charles F. Kettering1 quote
I am interested in the future because I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future. — Charles F. Kettering · 1939Edwin Starr1 quote
War!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing. — Edwin Starr · 1970Elizabeth Stone1 quote
Making the decision to have a child-it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. — Elizabeth Stone · 1985Gary Shilling1 quote
Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent. — Gary Shilling · 1986George Bennard1 quote
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown. — George Bennard · 1912Howell Forgy1 quote
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. — Howell Forgy · 1941James Arlington Wright1 quote
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life. — James Arlington Wright · 1961James Thurber1 quote
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. — James Thurber · 1953Jim Dine1 quote
I don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need. — Jim Dine · 2010John Dean1 quote
We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing. — John Dean · 1973Judith Butler1 quote
Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts. — Judith Butler · 1990