Isms Quotes · Page 2

Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have…

— Jim Shaw

It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances…

— Gabrielle Zevin

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against…

— John Dewey

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

— Yogi Berra

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

— Anonymous

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

— George Seaton

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of…

— Jack Kemp

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

— James Brown

I talk to people and show 'em how to solve their problems and stop sitting around and complaining. So I just give…

— Mr. T

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

— Ruby Dee

I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding…

— Rick Perry

The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to…

— Meher Baba

I'd say he's done more than that.

— Yogi Berra

“You know, if you live in a place for long you cease to write about it.' 'Of course I always like to…

— Graham Greene

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

— Jesse Jackson

There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the…

— Mark Tobey

We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until…

— Octavia Spencer

The game is not over until it is.

— Dwight Yorke

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism,

— Shashi Deshpande

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of…

— Thomas Sowell

“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped…

— Tim Wise

You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When…

— Malcolm X

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only…

— Clare Boothe Luce

I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned,…

— Erykah Badu