Mike Daisey Quotes

#1. Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

Eric Liu

#2. Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

William Blum

#3. We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#4. Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

Lawrence Blume

#5. Slowly would be better than not at all.

David Levithan

#6. We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

Jeff Sessions

#7. Meditation simplifies our outer life and energizes our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes so natural and spontaneous that we cannot breathe without being conscious of our own divinity.

Sri Chinmoy

#8. Wherever and whenever a woman is harassed, abused and exploited there could be found a religion or some kind of irrational belief and suppression of reason among the minds of men or women who were responsible for the exploitation.

Thiruman Archunan

#9. I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.

Lewis Tappan

#11. The more you have invested in your religion, the more you will be motivated to protect that investment. Stark

Daniel C. Dennett

#12. Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

Karen DeCrow

#13. Thank you, God, for the things you heal, the things you redeem, the things you refuse to leave just as they have been for what seems like forever.

Shauna Niequist

#14. YOU are the next big thing.

Bill Jensen

#15. Every small separation echoed a vaster goodbye

M. Pierce

#16. I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.

Amy Grant