Maya Angelou Quotes

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

Maya Angelou

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• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Pretty
  • Well
  • Everybody

• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Hope
  • Champion
  • I Can

• The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Heart
  • Singing
  • Voice

• When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Speeches
  • Fatigue
  • Recycling

• A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Hope
  • Past
  • Sacrifice

• Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Up
  • Career
  • Control

• I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Heart

• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Growth
  • Innovation

• I feel old films should not be remade.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Feel
  • Old
  • I Feel

• The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Children
  • Guy
  • Hate

• I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Happy
  • Energy
  • Creativity

• I think being shy or a little bit more mild-mannered is more how you treat people and how you go about your business, not necessarily how you dress or things of that nature.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • Business
  • Nature

• It has taken me so many years to finally be in my bed and fall asleep for six hours.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Fall
  • Taken

• Nobody ever said that Hillary's nomination would be unopposed or would be something that was foreordained.

  

  David Brock

• The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

  

  Fred W. Friendly
  • Pride

• [Elbowing incident] was a joke but what I want to say now is that I'm a bit sad that everyone failed to see that.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Want
  • Jokes
  • Bits

• Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

  

  Herodotus
  • Dreams
  • Incidents
  • Occupied

• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • School
  • Family
  • High

• The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Attention
  • Deals
  • Details

• Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Incidents
  • Be Reduced
  • Be Brought