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.

"I fight for perfection."

© Mike Tyson

"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