Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
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  • Birth: June 19, 1945

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GameProcessYouLookThreeChess

I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that.

Ann Leckie

ArtMyselfFoodPeopleStrong

I am a flea market junkie! Every city I go to, I'll be sure to look up when and where the biggest and best markets are nearby.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

BestI AmCityLookGoUp

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

Jeannette Rankin

DemocracySmallWillRaceCannot

I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister.

Michael Gove

OpportunityGreatGovernmentMe

The school holidays were always an exciting time in the Brownlee household. This was the opportunity for my brother Alistair and me to escape from the classroom and enjoy the great outdoors. Our childhood was jam-packed with fun family games and activities.

Jonathan Brownlee

FamilyOpportunityGreatTimeFun

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

Craig Benson

BusinessTimeJobDoingDoneMore

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

Paul Washer

GodAlonePrayerSilenceBeing Alone

Yes, I love poetry, both to read and to write it. A first love.

Peter Heller

LovePoetryWriteFirstFirst Love

To be a part of something like 'Tron,' good God! It doesn't matter how big or small your role is, you're like, 'Yeah, I was in 'Tron.'

Serinda Swan

GoodGodSmallYouMatterBig

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

Tina Brown

GenerationAmericanLongDyingUp

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

Tina Brown

FailureThinkYouUpHypeBig

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.

Rick Pitino

ChangePeopleYouPresidentOwnGet

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