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Then Quotes by Maya Angelou
- What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity…
- Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and…
- I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was…
- When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not…
- When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams…
- Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard…
- Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write…
- Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and…
- Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
- I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
- I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for…
- My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening…
- If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if…
More Then Quotes
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe