Maya Angelou Quotes

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

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• Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Experience
  • Morning
  • Poetry

• I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • People
  • Help
  • Hurt

• People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Find

• There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Learn
  • Better

• But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • American
  • Party

• And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sad
  • Purple

• I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Die
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.

  

  Alice Ripley

• AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Great
  • Business
  • Question

• As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • People
  • Life
  • Boy

• For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • People

• The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

  

  Peter Diamandis

• We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

  

  Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • Good

• Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

  

  Paul Tournier
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • People
  • Experience

• You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • Music
  • Power
  • Listening

• The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Evil
  • Jesus
  • Generation

• If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Enemy
  • Stage
  • Grace

• Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Real
  • Gold

• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  

  Homer
  • Moving
  • Dog
  • Loss

• No matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • World
  • Faith
  • Stupid

• I wanted to get a guitar when I was 13 so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords at summer camp. He was like, "You could play all punk songs if you just learn this chord and just move it around on the guitar".

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Learn
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Souls
  • Courageous
  • Impels