(1739 quotes found)
“The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.”
William S. Burroughs
“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.”
Quentin Crisp
“It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively”
Angela Davis
“Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human experience, may be so apt to serve the soul as this freedom and this necessity to be kind.”
William Saroyan
“Dedication involves making the space to let young ideas take hold; every tree was once a seed and every company was once an idea.”
Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen
“Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.”
Colin Powell
“The president's made his position clear. There is a principle involved here from the president's standpoint when it comes to issues of life.”
Scott McClellan
“Initial reports from the L.T.T.E. indicated one of their vessels were involved in an incident at sea, but they later said they had no involvement.”
Helen Olafsdottir