Oprah Winfrey Quotes
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
-
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
-
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
-
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
-
I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
-
Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
-
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
-
'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.
-
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
-
A girl's best friend is her pride.
-
To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
-
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
-
Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
-
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
-
During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
-
The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
-
Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
-
In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
-
Oh, talking about private school, man, I had cornrows, and when I picked 'em out, certain people that didn't look like me always wanted to touch 'em. One time, I just said, 'Yo, hell no.'
-
The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
-
Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.
-
I've not actually been on too many dates.
-
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
