Our Quotes

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.