Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life's gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
-
My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
-
For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
-
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
-
I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
-
Revenge doesn't stop.
-
But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
-
I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
-
Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
-
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
-
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
-
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
-
The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
-
By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
-
I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
-
Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
-
As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
-
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
-
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
-
I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.
-
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
-
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
-
Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
-
Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life's gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others.
