Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I always played to win.
-
Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
-
The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
-
I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
-
I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
-
I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
-
I want to serve the people.
-
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
-
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
-
There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.
-
I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
-
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
-
My philosophy on snow skiing is that there are less expensive ways to fall down a mountain. Yet every couple of years, I go on a ski trip for the same reason that women will have multiple children - they simply forget how much it hurts.
-
Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.
-
I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
-
DIRECTIONS FOR USING: For THINKING:-Wind the Clockwork Man under his left arm, (marked No. 1). For SPEAKING:-Wind the Clockwork Man under his right arm, (marked No. 2). For WALKING and ACTION:-Wind Clockwork Man in the middle of his back, (marked No. 3). N. B.-This Mechanism is guaranteed to work perfectly for a thousand years.
-
Okay, that's definitely enough hype.
-
I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
-
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. … The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe - turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you - if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.
-
Maybe we need to shelter ourselves so we see the beautiful.
-
The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.
-
I think we're ready for succession. We just must try to do it right.
