Prominent Leaders Quotes

#1. Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

Hu Shih

#2. During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Douglas Wilder

#3. Crossing the ocean is secondary, planning how to pass the tides is the goal.

Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

#4. If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

Peter Webber

#5. We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. In work, it is possible to find commitment, attachment, chemistry, and connection. In fact, it's high time that more people acknowledged the electric pull that women can feel for their profession, the exciting heat of ambition and frisson of success.

Rebecca Traister

#7. She is emerging (she has no choice) / into a place / like sex or childbirth, / one thing to the observer, something very different to the participant.

Kathleen Ossip

#8. 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.

Walter Pater

#9. When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?

Paul David Washer

#10. Diversification is your buddy.

Merton Miller

#11. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]

Margaret Sanger

#12. Pheu Thai has to find prominent party leaders that can solve the problems of the country now. If we can find those types of people, then we can win. There are many good people in Thailand but we have to recruit them.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#13. Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Mahesh Bhupathi

#14. The old-boobs Pamela or the new-boobs Pamela?

Michele Bardsley

#15. I have never been wise.

Robin Hobb

#16. Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

Michael Herr

#17. Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.

Patrick Ness

#18. A best friend is he who hurts you with their love and feels you when you're hurt.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Where your attention goes, your energy flows.

Kevin Horsley