Encouraged Quotes
539 Encouraged quotes by 484 unique authors
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The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
— Placido Domingo
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Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.
— Arthur Keith
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I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker,…
— Elizabeth Berkley
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I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's…
— Jan Brewer
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I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all…
— Kelly Cutrone
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My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre…
— Didi Conn
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The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off…
— Lee Child
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Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of…
— Linda Chavez
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My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt…
— Alice Eve
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The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same…
— Robert Fortune
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
— Daniel Gillies
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I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
— Carlisle Floyd
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Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did…
— Greg Iles
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I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M…
— Benjamin Watson
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Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.
— Benjamin Tucker
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I was encouraged that a group of women wanted to start WISH List, which works like EMILY's List, only it supports pro-choice Republican women. It…
— Ellen Malcolm
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In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should…
— Edward Felten
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My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send…
— Leon Jouhaux
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The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
— William Henry Harrison
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Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and…
— Charles Kimball
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Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious,…
— Susan Forward
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