Inspiring Quotes - Page 20

• I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girly, Mind, Looks

  "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962; later quoted in Ms. Magazine, August 1972.

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• If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Nature, Native American

  "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962; later quoted in Ms. Magazine, August 1972.

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• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  Aaron Siskind

  Inspirational, Photography, Forgotten Things

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• When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound.

  Maya Angelou

  Pain, Real, Writing

  "35 Maya Angelou Quotes That Changed My Life" by J.N. Salters, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

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• I am the captain of my soul.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Soul, Captains

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• All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Girl

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• There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

  Charles de Saint-Evremond

  Ingenuity, Passages, Application

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• Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

  James Mackintosh

  Maxims, Good Sense, Nations

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 638-39, quoted on the title page of Broom's Legal Maxims (1911), 1922.

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• We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Rights, Racism, People

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Feminist

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• When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

  Hélder Câmara

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

  "Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journey from Jail". Book by Father John Dear, 1995.

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• When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Freedom, Believe

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiration, Compassion, Jail

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Doe, Different

  Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.43, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

  Nelson Mandela

  Winning, Awards, Doe

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• I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Brother, Fighting, Voice

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Voice Of The Voiceless”

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• Go to where the silence is and say something.

  Amy Goodman

  Imagination, Silence, Silence Is

  Quoted in Columbia Journalism Review, Mar./Apr. 1994

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• I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

  Paul Newman

  Kids, Gay, Equality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

  Anne Lamott

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Heart

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be

  Roald Dahl

  Life, Passion, White

  Roald Dahl (2012). “My Uncle Oswald”, p.37, Penguin

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• Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5

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• We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

  Nelson Mandela

  Palestine, Apartheid, Palestinian

  Twitter post from Nov 29, 2015

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• Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

  Brené Brown

  Heart, Minutes, Worthy

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Simple, Differences, Making A Difference

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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• I think, therefore I am ... not here.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Influential

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2012). “You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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