Sirleaf Johnson Quotes & Sayings

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy. — Tamora Pierce

If your dreams don't scare you, its because they are not big enough.- Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. In a week from now, she would have no choices. — Neil Gaiman

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick. — Guy Oseary

There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

In response to a plea in early 1941 from his colleague and friend, the writer Marietta Shaginyan, who was newly infatuated with the Piano Quintet and its creator, Mickhail Zoshchenko drafted for her a portrait of the Shostakovich he knew, a deeply complex individual:
"It seemed to you that he is "frail, fragile, withdrawn, an infinitely direct, pure child." That is so. But if it were only so, then great art (as with him) would never be obtained. He is exactly what you say he is, plus something else - he is hard, acid, extremely intelligent, strong perhaps, despotic and not altogether good-natured (although cerebrally good-natured).
That is the combination in which he must be seen. And then it may be possible to understand his art to some degree.
In him, there are great contradictions. In him, one quality obliterates the other. It is conflict in the highest degree. It is almost a catastrophe."
Quoted in Laurel Fay: Shostakovich, a Life. — Dmitri Shostakovich

To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation.
My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Future generations will judge us
not by what we say, but what we do. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I was a jaded high schooler, I was still into pop music, though not as sincerely as I am now. It was more tongue-in-cheek back then. — Girl Talk

Liberia just needs to go through this one political transition and it can really take off. Everything's in place now. We cannot afford to put the country in the hands of someone that lacks the experience. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps. — Josh Mandel

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola, — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world. — David Miliband

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I need to be happy. I need to set that example for my daughter so that she goes into something she loves, not because other people want her to do something. It's a good feeling, it's freeing. — Lights

If your dreams do not scare you they aren't big enough — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

When I took office, Liberia began to recover from years of neglect. Our people have brought clean water into the heart of Monrovia to children who have never known water from a tap. Efforts are underway to expand water projects as much as possible throughout the country. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done. — Cory Lidle

I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I've been a victor of circumstance. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe, — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that. — Murray Mexted

Tell me I helped," I say, and it's a demand. I need to know I can be what he needs, that we can get through the darkness together. "You do more than help. You're the reason I take my next breath." The hoarse declaration whispers against my lips a moment before he kisses me, the tenderness in the touch of his tongue caressing mine telling me more than his words. — Lisa Renee Jones

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Me, me, me! Mine, mine, mine! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right. What's in it for me? How do I use this? How do I take advantage of it? This is the way of the ego. Own this within yourself and you will begin to release yourself from it. — Leonard Jacobson

If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf