Some Quotes

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

It's incredible, ridiculous really, isn't it? You realise you can make more money on the golf tour in one week than some people make in a lifetime.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.

I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.

People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.

I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures.