Orientation Quotes

It's not about where you end up, or how you got there, it's about where you're going next.

We should guide education away from its commercial, corporate, consumerist orientation, and toward a goal of helping individuals attain inner maturity, balance and a deeply rewarding sense of fulfillment.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology.

The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation.

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.

I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual.

If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations.

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex.

Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

I absolutely believe in assimilation.

I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.

Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties.

Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent.

We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer.

No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.

Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different.

That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.

When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.