Strong Women Maya Angelou Quotes & Sayings

You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences. — Auliq Ice

People from the military have been inside that thing. If I went back in time, I wouldn't necessarily be thinking geopolitically, but maybe they would. That has to be half the reason why they're funding us in the first place. Maybe there were earlier versions of history where Republicans didn't vote to pulp all those Andrew Jackson twenties and replace them with bills that had portraits of Reagan. Maybe in the first version of post-Point Zero history, insurgents in North and South Dakota didn't attempt to secede; maybe we weren't fighting enemies both here and in the Middle East. Or maybe there was a full-on civil war going on in the United States and the current state of affairs is an improvement. We don't know. We can't know. And we can't know the extent to which any of us, sitting here at this table, is responsible. — Dexter Palmer

Now Suzanne takes your hand
and she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
from Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
on our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
among the garbage and the flowers — Leonard Cohen

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not. — Mahatma Gandhi

IT is the business's competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention. — Pearl Zhu

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. — Unknown

Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage. — Maya Angelou

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men ... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name. — Maya Angelou

She's like a letter from the tax authorities, that old biddy, Granny used to say. — Fredrik Backman

. . . and he had never yet, by so much as a single spoken word, disclosed to her the state of his heart. — Charles Dickens

The constitution did indeed guarantee freedom of speech, but the laws punished anything that could be considered an attack on state security — Milan Kundera

You'll see. I have a collection of fine waistcoats and a handsome face. He stepped back to let her take in the full effect of both and her smile spread to the edge of a laugh. — Meljean Brook

left me studying the birds, with the assurance that he would shortly — Diana Gabaldon

Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried at least a ride ... We'll stick to the army on the ground and the battleships at sea. — John W. Weeks

Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. — Oscar Wilde