Diverse Quotes

• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Pain, Men

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• There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Love, Heart, Men

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

  Gustave Courbet

  Beautiful, Art, Reality

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• The longer you verk here, diverse it gets.

  Scott Adams

  "Dilbert". Comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams, dilbert.com. June 23, 1995.

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• Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Style, Quality

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• The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Future, Men, Diversity

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.265, Best Books on

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• A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, People, Perspective

  "Steve Jobs: The next insanely great thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

  Dick Durbin

  Party, Home, Illinois

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• Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.

  Andrew Shue

  Trying, Groups, Clique

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• Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, People, Liberty

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• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  Taylor Dane

  Artist, Eclectic Style, Taste

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• If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

  Adam Schiff

  Children, Giving, Diversity

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• It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Reading, Scotland

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• I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

  Marc Almond

  Past, Thinking, Europe

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• Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Kids, Diversity, Tolerance

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.

  Brit Hume

  Cnn, Literature, Spread

  "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

  Michael Behe

  Numbers, Example, Protein

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• I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Long, Lucky, Three

  "Producer Dino de Laurentiis Passes Away at Age 91" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 11, 2010.

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• We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, Made, Backgrounds

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

  Gijs de Vries

  Europe, Community, Levels

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• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  Zach Wamp

  Change, Blue, Oil

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• In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  America, Europe, Perspective

  "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.

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• Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

  Sam Farr

  Acceptance, Government, People

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