A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.
Kathleen Sebelius

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Marguerite Duras

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.
Rick Wagoner

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.
Greg Walden

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
Karen Hughes

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Keith Haring

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
Pierre de Coubertin

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
Michael Bloomberg

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
Michael Bloomberg

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
Jack Kingston

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.
Jane Horrocks

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
Richard Wagner