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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• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Man
  • Way
  • Standards

• 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

• Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Head
  • Medical

• 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

• Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • People
  • Man
  • Wife

• I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Believe
  • Textbooks

• If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.

  

  Edward Thomas
  • Chance
  • Daughter
  • Rose

• We convince by our presence.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • inspirational
  • Convince
  • Our

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

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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