(635 quotes found)
“All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.”
Larry Holmes
“Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity”
Will Durant
“No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind”
Charles Sumner
“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.”
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
“Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant professor: Equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.”
Ewald B. Nyquist
“Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.”
Lydia Lenker
“It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.”
Friedrich List
“The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.”
Bible
“We stay very busy in the summer and fall. We're trying to promote ourselves as a wedding site, which should help us out in the spring -- but in the winter, most of our business comes from funerals.”
Dan Clark
“Women are a great source of strength in creating human civilization, ... The promotion of gender equality and protection of women's rights impact on the immediate interests of women and decide whether human beings can fully develop their potential and pursue a better life.”
Hu Jintao