"It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything."

-- Ai-jen Poo

#People Quotes #Leader Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“Singing, dancing, and acting! The part [of Roxie in Let It Shine] was right up my alley. Plus, the thought of playing a rock star was like a dream for me.”
“Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.”
“This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be "good for business". The precedent set by Henry Ford in 1914, who offered workers $5.00 per day (a very high wage at the time) so they could afford to buy the same cars they made, is often invoked.”

Source : "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.
“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
“Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.”
“Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them.”

Source : Laurie Notaro (2003). “Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood”, p.15, Villard
“I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.27, ETT Imprint
“To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover. That's not easy, but the basic Yes, the conviction that God has created men, that he stands behind them, that they aren't simply negative, gives love a reference point that enables it to ground hope on the basis of faith.”

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