Hamidah Brinkley Quotes

#1. I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing.

Aurora Guerrero

#2. But if we start raising children differently, then in fifty years, in a hundred years, boys will no longer have the pressure of proving their masculinity by material means.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

Sir Fulke Greville

#4. We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that's where women have to break through.

Claire McCaskill

#5. [Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!

Elisabeth Of Wied

#6. Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#7. Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#8. You are the designer of your destiny; you are the author of your story.

Lisa Nichols

#9. I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.

Grover Cleveland

#10. When God picks your wife He looks for an angel.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

Lake Bell

#12. It was less fun being the chosen one and prophet when the gods were violent and capricious and their spokesman was insane and powerless.

James S.A. Corey

#13. God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.

Huey Long

#14. It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

William Pfaff