Inspiring Quotes - Page 89

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

What's a soup kitchen?

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

You will throughout your life have people who will tell you that you're not good enough. Maybe they're jealous. Maybe they think you aren't. Maybe they've had a bad day. But ultimately you have to believe in yourself.

No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible looking at the pock-marked walls. It's horrible looking at the flesh embedded on walls in Bosnia. It was horrible looking and interviewing and talking to the kids who lost their parents, because Saddam Hussein decided to feed their parents to the lions in downtown Baghdad. To characterize particularly myself, but other groups, as wanting to advocate a war I think is not only disingenuous, I think it's a patent falsehood intentionally created to stigmatize a group of people.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

I like to feel blonde all over.

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.