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Much Quotes by Maya Angelou
- My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage…
- I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'
- If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever…
- ...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the…
- Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who…
- I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm…
- When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It…
- I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We…
- A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
- Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure.
- People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is…
- I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There…
- The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be…
- I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy…
- When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to…
- Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.
- My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin…
- It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to…
- We need much less than we think we need.
- The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
- Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
- To those who are given much, much is expected.
- Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your…
- I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.
- There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side…
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- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong