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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.


Susan Anthony

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SUSAN B. ANTHONY Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effec...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations and social standing, ne...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, ne...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never...
SUSAN ANTHONY Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, nev...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY If you always try to be cautious and careful, you will never impress anyone.
M.F. MOONZAJER People have to be more cautious about their borrowing levels. You should never borrow the maximum am...
SANDY BAUM Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony.
JULIE HARRIS I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. Y...
SHANE WARNE The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to prese...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripateti...
GAIL COLLINS Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting...
BOB WOODWARD I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. Y...
SHANE WARNE Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women d...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men,...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER The FDA is a cautious regulatory body, and they need to be cautious. On the other hand, it can cause...
DR. CATHERINE BIRNDORF Most people look at their community and wonder just what one person can do to change it. Susan is a ...
JULIE GRADDY People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions,...
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BILL BISHOP The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN Hayden is celebrating its centennial this year, and people are really excited about their history, a...
ARIANTHE STETTNER We are not wired to bury our children. It was rough. Dick and Susan always will have a hole in their...
DON OHLMEYER Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.
ZIGGY MARLEY Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE [Many Founding Fathers wrote extensively on the subject. Thomas Jefferson said,] What country can pr...
GEORGE WASHINGTON People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly th...
ANNA DEAVERE SMITH She has tried as hard and she can to get this difficult case right, and then she is confronted with ...
CARL TOBIAS People should really think about the effect this will have on their retirement.
CAROLINE BOYD If you conform, you can never reform.
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JOE COCKER It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the ...
GORDON NEUFELD As people spend more time in their cars, they need to be more cautious about what kinds of chemicals...
CHARLES GRIFFITH Bartering is always a good way to preserve capital, enabling small companies to focus on growing the...
BRIAN LEE The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN That's Susan. She's always doing stuff like that.
KRISTA RAPPAHAHN People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find mys...
HENRY ROLLINS I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio st...
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JENNY MCCARTHY She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The...
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JASON JOHNSON She loves Susan Sarandon and I know my dad (would have loved) being married to Susan Sarandon, ... S...
CAMERON CROWE How can you reform when you are always busy conforming?
DEBASISH MRIDHA M.D. We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border ille...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY People always need to be cautious. While Lincoln Park is an upscale neighborhood, it is also a neigh...
DENISE MATTSON I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
DANIEL BOULUD It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
GARY SINISE Government officials should also be cautious about their comments or remarks to avoid hurting teache...
ALAN WONG This scandal has the potential to have a huge effect on K Street for decades. It will not only furth...
ALEX KNOTT In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our ...
YAHOO SERIOUS We were dealing with a very cautious, very careful consumer who was not really inspired to buy anyth...
KURT BARNARD It's certainly a positive that they'll be back at work, but we're still a little cautious about what...
SEAN MCGOWAN We're cautious and careful and precise with what we're trying to get across to the children and the ...
BIRDIE HARRISON Good reputations can take years to earn but only seconds to destroy.
DANYELLE SIEBEN NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECT

My words, thoughts and deeds have

a boomera...
ALLAN RUFUS There will be a short-term negative effect on the Taiwan dollar as people start to speculate who the...
LO CHUNG How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people...
TYLER PERRY You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a sec...
DARYL HALL Scoring first was big because we've struggled with that against good teams. But you've always got to...
MARIE MUHVIC I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions abou...
LAURA WASSER Well, he is more careful, more cautious. He's protecting a lead. He's very sensitive to the fact tha...
BRUCE BUCHANAN Human beings are not just workers, consumers, or even entrepreneurs. They are also parents, children...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.
PAUL WALKER Anthony can be a sucker for rolls sometimes.
DAN KELLY Anthony Davis knew who Dennis Winston was, ... When he tackled Anthony Davis, he went backwards. I a...
HAROLD HORTON It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
GARY SINISE If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting...
CATHERINE KEENER The 'single tax' is so simple, so fundamental, and so easy to carry into effect that I have no doubt...
CLARENCE DARROW I hated missing every bit of it up here. (Team trainers) were real cautious and careful with me, whi...
AARON SMALL If it has an effect on political reform in China it will be a bad one. It can't have a good effect, ...
DAI QING Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance th...
ALICE WALKER For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just ...
JILLIAN MICHAELS Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to ...
GEORGE AYITTEY You don't care about reputations. What happened to the Travis that doesn't give a shit what anyone t...
JAMIE MCGUIRE I have concluded that Anthony Kennedy was being ultra-careful in his testimony, with the entrails of...
GORDON HUMPHREY People are very cautious about what they take to make sure plenty is left over for others.
LYNN COLLINS Anthony Johnson is a guy you can count on.
RICK CARLISLE People are looking for ways to lower their risk of fracture. This indicates that a simple dietary in...
JOAN MCGOWAN In Hollywood, people get reputations, just rumors that are passed down.
JASON STATHAM People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
RUSSEL HONORE If you want to be well liked never lie about yourself, and be careful when telling the truth about o...
UNKNOWN She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT If your presence doesn’t make a difference, your words can never create effect.
VIKRANT PARSAI Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience thro...
TAMRON HALL You're on such thin ice there. You're talking about people's associations and reputations. I don't t...
ANTHONY CURTIS Be careful of broken people. Their sharp edges may cut you.
NICKIESHA REID Over the last few years Social Security has come under attack ... The President and Congress must pl...
ERIC GRAY It can have a real effect as to how many people say yes.
TREVOR HUGHES I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
MIKE D Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
CESAR CHAVEZ That's what leadership is about, bringing people together to effect change.
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SUSAN SONTAG A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains o...
SUSAN SONTAG Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub...
SUSAN SONTAG What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full hu...
SUSAN SONTAG Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative...
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the...
SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon...
SUSAN ERTZ Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of men...
SUSAN SONTAG Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.
SUSAN SHAUGHNESSY Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms,...
SUSAN SONTAG Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
SUSAN SONTAG We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting...
SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...
SUSAN SONTAG Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence,...
SUSAN SONTAG AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It ...
SUSAN SONTAG AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder...
SUSAN SONTAG Always think of your customers as suppliers first. Work closely with them, so they can supply you wi...
SUSAN MARTHALLER I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a pa...
SUSAN SONTAG Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us...
SUSAN SONTAG Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone n...
SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ...
SUSAN SONTAG Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks differe...
SUSAN CHEEVER What we need is to use what we have.
SUSAN SONTAG Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.
SUSAN RABIN It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
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