Oprah Winfrey Quotes

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • World
  • Man
  • Me

• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Body
  • Substance

• The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Man
  • Chinese

• A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Man
  • Nothing

• Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Trying
  • Man
  • English

• The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Man
  • Black
  • You

• Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Wishes

• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Race

• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • Man
  • Humanity

• Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Man
  • Law
  • Exist

• When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • House
  • Parents
  • Man

• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • Me

• I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.

  

  Ian McShane
  • True
  • Man
  • Culture

• Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Fight

• We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Man

• I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Man

• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Study

• Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk

• Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

  

  Plutarch
  • Terror
  • Architect
  • Commotion

• There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Beautiful
  • Giving
  • Blind

• What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Food
  • Popular

• If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Man
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