Local Quotes

1172 Local quotes by 970 unique authors

The people are learning that you cannot leave decisions only to leaders. Local groups have to create the political will for change, rather than waiting… — Wangari Maathai
When you call us, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, we do have your phone number, and if you say anything untoward, obscene, or… — Bill O'Reilly
One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his… — Thomas Aquinas
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources. — Mitch Daniels
In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences,… — Wendell Berry
One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the… — David Soul
According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving… — Star Parker
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and… — Renata Adler
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and… — Renata Adler
The sex curriculum will be essentially by taught by the local gay community. — Michele Bachmann
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Tax deductible, That's what you are: Tax deductible. Just like my car, like a gift to local charity, you give my 1040 clarity — Unknown Author
A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules — Unknown Author
In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a viceroy from London… — Webster Tarpley
We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated… — Peter Calthorpe
Science is global, but solution is local. — Ellen J. Kullman
From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally were not supported by the… — Thomas G. West
The national media will talk about (national problems) because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality is these are… — Larry Sabato
Centralized sounds good ... but the reality is that the National Guard and Army don't have the kind of ties with local organizations that ultimately… — Peter May
Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they… — Neal A. Maxwell
You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness. — Neal A. Maxwell
I went out to testify in front of the Ways and Means Committee out in Congress on open free trade to China. Now, this would… — Jesse Ventura
There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact… — Paul Craig Roberts
It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to… — Michael Symon

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