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Very Quotes by Maya Angelou
- There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
- I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of…
- Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
- I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I…
- Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting…
- I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself…
- I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat.…
- I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and…
- I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
- I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of…
- I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It…
- To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at…
- I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness…
- You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and…
- You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love…
- Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your…
- You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll…
- Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness…
- If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother…
- When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
- I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday…
- 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…
- [E]very day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
More Very Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- 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 have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong