Espoused Quotes

#1. Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#2. I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

Edna O'Brien

#3. In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.

Josh Malerman

#4. They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values.

Gregory S. Prince Jr.

#5. America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

Henry Louis Gates

#6. He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong

Robert Green Ingersoll

#7. Praxis is about applying one's knowledge to challenge oppressive systems and unequal traditions. It is related to the well-known phrase "the personal is political" espoused by many advocates of the second-wave women's movement.

Michele Tracy Berger

#8. Today's China is an artifact of an extended and contentious history while the relatively young American Republic is a daring project informed by the enlightenment philosophy espoused by the Founding Fathers.

Patrick Mendis

#9. The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.

Conrad Black

#10. Brexit suggests that there IS some level of non-vocal group who supports positions like those espoused by [Donald]Trump that polls are missing.

Christopher Michael Cillizza

#11. Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#12. Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

John Milton

#14. The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

David Barton

#15. I had read for the way words sounded, not for the ideas they espoused.

Pat Conroy

#16. Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#17. Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

Michel De Montaigne

#18. I would just have a different policy than what he has espoused ... We need to recognize we are not going to deport 12 million people, and ... we shouldn't.

Haley Barbour

#19. Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

Imelda Staunton

#20. It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.

Neal Stephenson

#21. In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.

Joseph C. Wilson

#22. Liberalism's fatal flaw, ... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes.

Joseph Sobran

#23. Certitude is strength and suspicion is worthless, and worry over suspicion is something less than that. I

R.A. Salvatore

#24. Kill him, then hug him.
Men are more faithful when dead.

Nizar Qabbani

#25. I am not ride-or-die. Those are some pretty limiting choices: So if I'm not riding, I gotta die? Can I get off and take the bus? Is "Let's talk about it" an option? What about "ride, or pause this if we need to"? There

Luvvie Ajayi

#26. When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.

John Bytheway

#27. Suddenly, but not really. There is always a beginning.

Sarah Moss

#28. In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

Ferran Adria

#29. It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

Carlos Castaneda

#30. When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And they were struggling with it. And then, Christoph [Waltz] came in and I didn't know who Christoph was.

Quentin Tarantino

#31. We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

Luc De Clapiers

#32. There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.

Jimmy Haslam

#33. I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

Eric Gagne

#34. Having all those women together in one place was like looking through a photo album of my life: from when I was a baby to the Saturday Club to Rockport Lodge to working at the newspaper to meeting Aaron.

Anita Diamant