Able Quote by Sharon Cameron

Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious self-expression. Rather,…

— Vine Deloria Jr

“The goal then is to understand why people did not or could not act differently. People acted the way they did for very good…

— Nancy G. Leveson

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell…

— Juliette Lewis

Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians.…

— Howard Zinn

“Which is how most people acted when it came to temptation. They gave in. And we should never forget, thought Isabel, that every one…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't…

— Michelle Obama

“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat…

— Suzette Boon

I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion…

— Elijah Wood

I want to cultivate a deep sense of gratitude, of groundedness, of enough, even while I'm longing for something more. The longing and the…

— Shauna Niequist

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses…

— Friedrich Engels

“Kingdoms rise and fall. I can be steady.”

— Laurie Perez

“Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better…

— Arthur Hugh Clough

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

— Kristen Wiig

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

— Oliver Stone

“Once our imagination starts collapsing and the fragrant blossoms of our inspiration are wilting, petal after petal, our awareness may shake to its foundations,…

— Erik Pevernagie