Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

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• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Road
  • Dead
  • Lawyer

• My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Creativity

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Want
  • Black

• I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Competition
  • Games

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Morning

• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Believe
  • Help

• You can almost taste the pressure now.

  

  Vin Scully
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Now

• Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Songs

• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Alone
  • Leader

• Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Remember
  • High
  • Woman

• Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Act

• St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

  

  Charles Madigan
  • Fool
  • Irish
  • Make

• You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Rama will be in my care, and he will be quite well. But ultimately, he will leave me too. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way.

  

  Valmiki
  • Feet
  • Tree
  • Parent

• Candidly, I've noticed that throughout my career, whether in offices that are majority male or majority female, the men are quick to advocate for themselves for a higher starting salary or more pay bumps over time.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Time
  • Men
  • Career

• My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Long
  • Youth

• IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn’t face much competition.

  

  Steve Jurvetson
  • Energy
  • Kind
  • Competition

• Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Worrying