"The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas."

-- Liza Featherstone

#Issues Quotes #Progress Quotes #Culture Quotes

“If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.”
“As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.”
“Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.”
“Foppery is the egotism of clothes.”
“Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.”
“There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth spurts or lose weight or stop wearing high heels. You keep fitting after you have children or change religions or stop dyeing your hair or quit your job at Goldman Sachs and take up farming. Somehow, God is gracious enough to give us a few of those people, people you can stretch into, people who don't go away, and whom you wouldn't want to go away, even if they offered.”

Source : Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.85, Algonquin Books
“Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.”

Source : The New York Times, April 18, 1967.

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