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Ken Calvert Quotes

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

Ken Calvert

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 8, 1953

Topics

Marriage Woman Man Practice Values

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Joan Halifax

Best Experience Compassion Wish Will

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

Love Pains Sweeter Pleasures Far

Your sympathy is worthless to people in need without action.

Andy Dunn

People Sympathy Action Need Without

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

John McWhorter

Relationship People Black Think Same

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

Michael Harrington

Life Community Lived Common

Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself - of poems and stories and essays - delivers the only reward a writer can be sure of. And, perhaps, the only one that matters.

Michael Dirda

End Generation Reward Come And Go Go

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

John Polanyi

Fear Science Must Ourselves Really

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

Stella Young

Beauty Effort Body Sometimes Painful

Oh, I am very old fashioned about my literature taste. I like Henry James. I like George Elliot. I like Dostoyevsky. I like the old people. I really do. I like people who write big, fat, juicy novels you can get completely lost in!

Sonya Walger

I Am People Fat Literature You Lost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Education Losing Self-Confidence Your

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'

Mike D

Enough You Done Say Company Up

The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.

Lorraine Hansberry

Man World Problem Oppression Which