Section: «Quotes»

A quotation (from Latin citare, citatum - to proclaim, to cite) is a verbatim excerpt from some text of someone's speech; the author's words, cited to support it with authority or simply to illustrate one's own expressed thought, or to criticize the quoted thought itself.

"Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It’s like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can’t..

© Mike Tyson

"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want."

© Mike Tyson

"I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been."

© Mike Tyson

"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it."

© Mike Tyson

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

© Mike Tyson

DyingIs an art, like everything else.I do it exceptionally well.

© Sylvia Plath

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

© Maya Angelou

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

© Maya Angelou

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

© Maya Angelou

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

© Maya Angelou

... the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and..

© Maya Angelou

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's..

© Maya Angelou

Stories of law violations are weighed on a different set of scales in the Black mind than in the white. Petty crimes embarrass the community and many..

© Maya Angelou

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

© Maya Angelou

I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

© Maya Angelou

We had won. Pimps got out of their polished cars and walked the streets of San Francisco only a little uneasy at the unusual exercise. Gamblers..

© Maya Angelou

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings..

© Maya Angelou

...talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

© Maya Angelou

...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I'm not certain what the difference is, but I do know that if you butt your head..

© Maya Angelou

Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side..

© Maya Angelou

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning..

© Maya Angelou

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

© Maya Angelou

At the first meeting he shakes hands, flatters, and swans but turns away.

© Abai Qūnanbaev

Exuberance reveals a vice in everything.

© Abai Qūnanbaev

Laughter with frustration is not joy, but sorrow.

© Abai Qūnanbaev