Areas Quotes - Page 32

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, World, Faults

  50 Copy quote

• Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

  William Shatner

  Growing Up, Cities, Today

  "William Shatner: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2012.

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

  Alan Shepard

  Design, Together, Gone

  9 Copy quote

• Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

  Nate Silver

  Overcoming, Rooms, Tough

  4 Copy quote

• We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

  Manmohan Singh

  Government, Way, Limits

  Interview with Rajat Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. August 16, 2005.

  79 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

  Patti Smith

  Christian, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.

  Wilbur Smith

  Beach, Hunting, Islands

  12 Copy quote

• I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Years, Safari

  4 Copy quote

• My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Differences, Judging, Heritage

  "White House: Sotomayor Says She Chose Words Poorly in 2001 Remarks". www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2009.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Lays

  4 Copy quote

• By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reading, Writing, Asking Questions

  7 Copy quote

• I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Believe, Optimistic, Optimism

  8 Copy quote

• One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

  Charles Stanley

  Temptation, Important, Weakness

  "Dr. Charles Stanley: Learning to Walk Wisely". Interview with Craig von Buseck, www.cbn.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian Inspirational, Want, Faces

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

  Charles Stanley

  Home, America, Ministry

  Interview with Lillian Kwon, www.christianpost.com. September 14, 2007.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.

  Alex Steffen

  Moving, Cities, Feet

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Niche, Economy, Profile

  17 Copy quote

• As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

  Tom Stoppard

  Experts, Able, Illusion

  4 Copy quote

• Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

  Meryl Streep

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

  38 Copy quote

• To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

  Barbra Streisand

  Strength, Believe, Mean

  Playboy interview, 1977.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

  Taylor Swift

  Love Life, Love Is

  "Taylor Swift in Wonderland". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. October 25, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.

  Ice T

  House, Parent, Black

  7 Copy quote

• And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

  Emma Thompson

  Change, Communication, Thinking

  8 Copy quote

• There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Way, Linux

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

  John Travolta

  Autism, Illness, Known

  4 Copy quote