There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.
I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.
A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
I often run into wrestlers at comic conventions or wrestling events, and it could be Tito Santana or Demolition, and I'm just flooded with memories. It's always nice to see one of your old mates, especially the ones who I knew from further back.
There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical.
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
The church needs a pope who can call us to conversion and lead us to take seriously what Jesus did.
There is a difference between a convert who is built on the rock of Christ through the Book of Mormon and stays hold of that iron rod, and one who is not.
Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
