I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

- Alice Walker

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

- Aristotle

Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which is most widely known. It is Hindi. A man who knows Hindi can travel over India and find everywhere Hindi-speaking people.

- Annie Besant

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.

- Anna Quindlen

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.

- Angela Davis

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

- Andy Rooney

My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing.

- Andie MacDowell

My goal is to do cartwheels for the rest of my life.

- Andie MacDowell

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

- Alice Walker

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

- Alice Walker

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

- Abdullah II of Jordan

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

- Alice Walker

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

- Alexander Wang

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

- Alexander Pope

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

- Alan Greenspan

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

- Al Yankovic

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.

- Al Gore

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

- Abraham Lincoln

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

- Abigail Adams

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

- Abdullah II of Jordan