"Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything."

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Gabourey Sidibe

#Wise Quotes #Tree Quotes

“It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.”
“By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.”
“You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.”
“Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.”

Source : "Prologues". Republished in "Dramatic Works", 1739.
“If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?”
“Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.”

Source : Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, delivered 3 January 2008, Des Moines, Iowa
“Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way.”

Source : Nora Raleigh Baskin (2010). “Anything But Typical”, p.47, Simon and Schuster
“By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.”

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