At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.Quote by Rosa Parks about time, day, idea, things, people
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.Quote by Rosa Parks about teaching, fear, mind
It was not pre-arranged, it just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.Quote by Rosa Parks about opinion, day
Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.Quote by Talcott Parsons about reason
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.Quote by Blaise Pascal about opinion, time
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.Quote by Blaise Pascal about god, heart, things, man
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.Quote by Walter Pater about writers, poetry, beauty, art, magic
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.Quote by Walter Pater about old, religion
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go...Quote by George S. Patton about time, moral, fear
The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.Quote by Alice Paul about woman
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in...Quote by Ivan Pavlov about animals, respect, time
Although I never made it to parliament, I did succeed in attracting the attention of the world's media to what I had to say.Quote by Cynthia Payne about succes, attention, world
Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.Quote by Minnie Pearl about affair, life
They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.Quote by Minnie Pearl
During my lifetime greater and more spectacular progress has been made in the physical sciences than in many centuries that preceded it.Quote by Lester B. Pearson about opinion, progress
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.Quote by Lester B. Pearson about idea, mistake, peace, change, world, people
The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.Quote by Lester B. Pearson about revelation, war
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, expectation, progress, idea, man